Quotes about Robert Burton

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it...

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Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

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A quiet mind cureth all.

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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant...

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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in...

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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all...

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