Top 41 Robert Burton Quotes
#1. No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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#2. If you like not my writing, go read something else.
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#3. Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
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#5. To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
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#7. A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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#9. As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.
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#10. If you have no dreams, you shall live within them
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#11. The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
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#13. No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,
My subject is of man, and human kind.
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#14. [T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
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#15. I would advise him that is actually melancholy not to read this tract of Symptoms, lest he disquiet or make himself for a time worse, and more melancholy than he was before.
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#16. No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as [love] can do with a single thread.
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#18. Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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#19. It is an old saying, "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword"; and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrile and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-plays, or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.
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#22. that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment.
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#23. We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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#24. Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
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#25. Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
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#27. The eyes are the harbingers of love, and the first step of love is sight.
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#28. A good conscience is a continual feast, but a galled conscience is as great a torment as can possibly happen, a still baking oven (so Pierius in his Hieroglyph compares it), another hell.
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#29. What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
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#30. Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.
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#31. One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
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#32. A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
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#33. We love neither God nor our neighbor as we should. Our love in spiritual things is "too defective, in worldly things too excessive, there is a jar in both." We love the world too much; God too little; our neighbor not at all, or for our own ends.
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#34. Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
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#35. Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
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#38. That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.
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#39. If heaven be so fair,the sun so fair, how much fairer shall He be that made them fair? For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures, proportionally the maker of them is seen.
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#40. If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
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#41. I would desire to have no other prison than a library, and to be chained together with as many good authors.
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