Author: Thomas Browne

Cited by

• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: Chance (1913) Fiction, Speculative fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Those that hold that all things are governed by fortune had not erred, had they not persisted there.
    FROM: Religio Medici, (1643), Book, UK
• Sebastian Barry (1)
  • IN: The Secret Scripture (2008) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The greatest imperfection is in our inward sight, that is, to be ghosts unto our own eyes.
    FROM: Christian Morals, (1716), Book, UK
• John Lescroart (1)
  • IN: The Hearing (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where life is more terrible than death, It is then the truest valor to want to live.
    FROM: Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings, (1831), Book, UK
• de la Mare, Walter (1)
  • IN: The Return (1910) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Look not for roses in Attalus his garden, or wholesome flowers in a venomous plantation. And since there is scarce any one bad, but some others are the worse for him; tempt not contagion by proximity and hazard not thyself in the shadow of corruption.
    FROM: Christian Morals, (1716), Book, UK
• Carlos Fuentes (1)
  • IN: The Old Gringo (1985) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But who knows the fate of his bones or how often he is to be buried?
    FROM: Religio Medici, (1643), Book, NULL