Robert Burton Quotes

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• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant…
• Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
• To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
• 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,…
• No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
• A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
• No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
• We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
• Be not solitary, be not idle
• If you like not my writing, go read something else.
• What a glut of books! Who can read them?
• Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
• Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
• [T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
• A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
• A quiet mind cureth all.
• A good conscience is a continual feast.
• Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
• Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

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