"Wit without employment is a disease" — Robert Burton
"Wit without employment is a disease"
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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 Disease Quotes
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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious…
— Chester A. Arthur
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
— Francis Bacon
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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The…
— James A. Baldwin
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
— Daniel Barenboim
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
— Mario Batali
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I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there…
— Melody Beattie
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At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting…
— Martha Beck
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know…
— Wendell Berry
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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the…
— Grace Abbott
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