Quote#Remembrance
Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares…
Quote byThomas Browne · 1605–1682
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V.
English (original)
Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables.
— Thomas Browne
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