Top 19 Robert A. Burton Quotes

#1. Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

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#2. Out of too much learning become mad.

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#3. Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.

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#4. Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

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#5. Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

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#6. Build castles in the air.

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#7. Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

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#8. They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.

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#9. Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.

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#10. Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

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#11. Naught so sweet as melancholy.

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#12. The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.

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#13. Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

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#14. It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

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#15. Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.

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#16. Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

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#17. Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.

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#18. He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.

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#19. Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed.

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