"Be not solitary, be not idle" — Robert Burton
"Be not solitary, be not idle"
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Robert Burton
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45 Quotes by Robert Burton
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in…
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to…
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has…
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Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental…
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Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the…
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More Idle Quotes
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one of 438 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
— Walter Bagehot
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to…
— Jo Brand
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Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois…
— Nick Cave
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
— Thomas Carlyle
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring…
— Benjamin Haydon
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A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp,…
— Osbert Sitwell
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and…
— William Penn
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Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill…
— Wumen Huikai
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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
— William Shakespeare
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