We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. — Robert Burton Mayors Copy Share Image
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. — Robert Burton Hell Copy Share Image
Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven — Robert Burton Destiny 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 Discontent Copy Share Image
“knaves and fools commonly fare and deserve best in worldlings' eyes and opinions.” — Robert Burton Fool 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 Ambition Copy Share Image
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. — Robert Burton Bitter love 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
“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.” — Robert Burton Business Copy Share Image
Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own — Robert Burton Mirror Copy Share Image
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. — 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,… — Robert Burton Change Copy Share Image
“We love neither God nor our neighbor as we should. Our love in spiritual things is "too defective, in worldly things too… — Robert Burton Love Copy Share Image
“I know that we think far otherwise, and hold them most part wise men that are in authority, princes, magistrates,{185} rich men,… — Robert Burton Politics Copy Share Image
“A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack,… — Robert Burton Desire 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
“If heaven be so fair,the sun so fair, how much fairer shall He be that made them fair? For by the greatness… — Robert Burton Beauty 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
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Hippocrates asked the reason why he laughed. He told him, at the vanities and the fopperies of the time, to see men… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“are in men! When they are poor and needy, they seek riches, and when they have them, they do not enjoy them,… — Robert Burton Difficult things 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… — Robert Burton Books 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… — Robert Burton Books 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
“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
“...those impious epicures, libertines, atheists, hypocrites, infidels, worldly, secure, impenitent, unthankful, and carnal-minded men, that attribute all to natural causes, that will… — Robert Burton Ethics Copy Share Image
“Judges give judgment according to their own advantage, doing manifest wrong to poor innocents to please others. Notaries alter sentences, and for… — Robert Burton False witness Copy Share Image
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