Robert Burton Quotes

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Though it rain daggers with their points downward.

Robert Burton
Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.

Robert Burton
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

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I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.

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As if they had heard that enchanted horn of Astolpho, that English duke in Ariosto, which never sounded but all his auditors were mad, and for fear ready to make away [with] themselves … they are a company of giddy-heads, afternoon men.

Robert Burton
Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?

Robert Burton
A nightingale, dies for shame, if another bird sing better, he languisheth and pineth away in the anguish of his spirit.

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Sickness is the mother of modesty, putteth us in minde of our mortality; and, when wee are in the full careere of worldly pompe and jollity, she pulleth us by the eare, and maketh us knowe ourselves.

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The heavens themselves run continually round, the sun riseth and sets, the moon increaseth, stars and planets keep their constant motions, the air is tossed by the winds, the waters ebb and flow, to their conservation no doubt, to teach us that we should ever be in motion.

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It is in vain to speak of cures, or think of remedies, until such time as we have considered of the causes...

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Curious wits, not be a slave of one science, or dwell altogether in one subject as most do, but [should] rove abroad, to have an oar in every mans boat, to taste of every dish, and sip of every cup,

Robert Burton