Robert Burton Quotes

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• [T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself. Canst
• A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. Blow
• A quiet mind cureth all. All
• A good conscience is a continual feast. Conscience
• Idleness is an appendix to nobility. Appendix
• Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. All
• Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own Believes
• Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full… Agony
• Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges. Charges
• They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. Books
• Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man… Any
• Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven Destiny
• Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some of them in… Busy
• That which is a law today is none tomorrow Law
• Good laws are begot by bad actions Actions
• One was never married and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague Hell
• 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,… Causeth
• What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. Adorning
• It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us Betrayal
• One religion is as true as another One

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