Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by William Browne

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English poet William Browne.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

William Browne was an English pastoral poet, born at Tavistock, Devon, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford; subsequently he entered the Inner Temple.

English - Poet | 1590 - 1645

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

William Browne

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

William Browne

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

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

William Browne

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

William Browne

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

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

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by William Browne

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