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Thomas Browne

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October 19, 1605 in London, The United Kingdom

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After graduating M.A. from Broadgates Hall, Oxford (1629), he studied medicine privately and worked as an assistant to an Oxford doctor. He then attended the Universities of Montpellier and Padua, and in 1633 he was graduated M.D. at Leiden. Browne's medical education in Europe also earned him incorporation as M.D. from Oxford, and in 1637 he moved to Norwich, where he lived and practiced medicine until his death in 1682. While Browne seems to have had a keen intellect and was interested in many subjects, his life was outwardly uneventful, although during the Civil War he declared his support for King Charles I and received a knighthood from King Charles II in 1671.

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Average rating: 4.31 · 154 ratings · 17 reviews · 97 distinct works

	The Major Works by Thomas Browne, C.A. Patrides (Editor, Introduction, Notes), Thomas Brown 4.55 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1686 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Urne Burial 4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1958 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Religio Medici (1642) by Sir Thomas Thomas Browne, Sir Thomas Thomas Browne 4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1939 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into Commonly Presumed Truths 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Voyce Of The World 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Letter to a Friend, &C., and Christian Morals by Thomas Browne, William Alexander Greenhill 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Garden of Cyrus 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pseudodoxia Epidemica 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004 — 15 editions	My rating:

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“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.”
― Thomas Browne, Prose: "Religio Medici" , "Hydriotaphia" , "Garden of Cyrus" , "Letter to a Friend" , "Christian Morals" and Selections from Other Works

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“Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.”
― Thomas Browne

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“If thou could'st empty all thyself of self, like to a shell dishabited, then might He find thee on the ocean shelf, and say "This is not dead," and fill thee with Himself instead. But thou art all replete with very thou and hast such shrewd activity, that when He comes He says, "This is enow unto itself-'twere better let it be, it is so small and full, there is no room for Me.”
― Thomas Browne

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