"If there be a hell upon earth it……" — Robert Burton

"If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart"

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45 Quotes by Robert Burton

Robert Burton has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
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…
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…
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has…
Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental…
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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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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