William Browne Quotes

• There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

  William Browne

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

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• Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

  William Browne

  Trying, Investing, Natural

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• If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

  William Browne

  Garden, Heaven, Providence

  Nicholas Breton, George Wither, William Browne (1906). “Nicholas Breton: Pastoral Poems; George Wither: Selected Poetry; William Browne (of Tavistock): Pastoral Poetry”

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• The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

  William Browne

  Horse, Kings, Book

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• Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.

  William Browne

  Clouds, Affliction, Hours

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• But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

  William Browne

  Death, Garden, Heaven

  William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”

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• Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

  William Browne

  Life, Life Is, Length

  William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.65

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