No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. — Robert Burton Love Copy Share Image
“When I lie waking all alone, Recounting what I have ill done, My thoughts on me then tyrannize, Fear and sorrow me… — Robert Burton Fear Copy Share Image
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. — Robert Burton Angel Copy Share Image
“who is not sick, or ill-disposed? in whom doth not passion, anger, envy, discontent, fear and sorrow reign? Who labours not of… — Robert Burton Fear Copy Share Image
“they swell in this life as if they were immortal, and demigods, for want of understanding.” — Robert Burton Learning Copy Share Image
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel… — Robert Burton Ambition Copy Share Image
“The eyes are the harbingers of love, and the first step of love is sight.” — Robert Burton First step Copy Share Image
“When they are young, they would be old, and old, young.{244} Princes commend a private life; private men itch after honour: a… — Robert Burton Life Copy Share Image
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy. — Robert Burton Fortune Copy Share Image
“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is… — Robert Burton Alone Copy Share Image
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. — Robert Burton Candle Copy Share Image
Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are… — Robert Burton Discontent Copy Share Image
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. — Robert Burton Ancient Copy Share Image
Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own — Robert Burton Truth Copy Share Image
“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.” — Robert Burton Book Copy Share Image
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. — Robert Burton Anger Copy Share Image
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