Robert Burton
Writer
1577-02-08
Books by Robert Burton
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The anatomy of melancholy
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International Wildlife Encyclopedia
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Quotes by Robert Burton
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A true saying it is, "Desire hath no rest;" is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
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A true saying it is, "Desire hath no rest;" is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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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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We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer. ... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
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They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
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Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.
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Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
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Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
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A good conscience is a continual feast.
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He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.
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They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.
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Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as Melancholy.
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
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Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy.
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All places are distant from heaven alike.
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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