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Robert Burton

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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
Robert Burton
Birds of a feather, flock together.
Robert Burton
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton
Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.
Robert Burton
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Robert Burton
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Robert Burton
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton
Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offences are written and registered and which time reveals to the sense and feeling of the offender.
Robert Burton
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
Robert Burton
Diseases crucify the soul of man attenuate our bodies dry them wither them rivel them up like old apples make them as so many Anatomies.
Robert Burton
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton
A quiet mind cureth all.
Robert Burton
The miller sees not all the water that flows by his mill.
Robert Burton
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Robert Burton
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.
Robert Burton
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
Robert Burton
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton
Penny wise pound foolish.
Robert Burton
Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
Robert Burton
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Robert Burton
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton

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