"What is life, when wanting love? Night without……" — Robert Burton
"What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning."
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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 Adorning Quotes
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one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
— Clement of Alexandria
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May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of…
— Al-Ghazali
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To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates…
— Paul Watson
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What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast…
— Walt Whitman
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It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the…
— Ellen G. White
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The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with…
— William Blake
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For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for…
— Bhartrhari
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Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with…
— Dan Fogelberg
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Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning…
— Jean Kerr
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If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because…
— Isabel Allende
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