“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.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“...those impious epicures, libertines, atheists, hypocrites, infidels, worldly, secure, impenitent, unthankful, and carnal-minded men, that attribute all to natural causes, that will acknowledge no… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“To The Reader Who Employs His Leisure Ill Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“knaves and fools commonly fare and deserve best in worldlings' eyes and opinions.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“as{268} Petrarch observes, we change language, habits, laws, customs, manners, but not vices, not diseases, not the symptoms of folly and madness, they are… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
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