Robert  Burton

Robert Burton

"A quiet mind cureth all."
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"A quiet mind cureth all."
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"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague."
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"What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning."
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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 proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun."
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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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"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore."
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"To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature."
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"Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery."
Robert Burton
"Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop."
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"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread."
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"Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity."
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"If the world will be gulled let it be gulled."
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"They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud."
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"All Poets are mad."
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