Robert Burton quotes
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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.”
-- Robert BurtonSource : The Anatomy of Melancholy "Democritus Junior to the Reader" (1621 - 1651) See Bernard of Chartres 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1
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“The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.”
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“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.”
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“Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.”
-- Robert BurtonSource : Robert Burton (1857). “The Anatomy of melancholy”, p.366
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“Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.”
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“What a glut of books! Who can read them?”
-- Robert BurtonSource : Robert Burton (1955). “The Anatomy of Melancholy: Now for the First Time with the Latin Completely Given in Translation and Embodied in an All-English Text”
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“If you like not my writing, go read something else.”
-- Robert BurtonSource : Robert Burton (1859). “The anatomy of melancholy: what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it. In three partitions ...”, p.42
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“Be not solitary, be not idle”
-- Robert BurtonSource : The Anatomy of Melancholy pt. 3, sec. 4 (1621 - 1651) See Samuel Johnson 97
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“We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.”
-- Robert BurtonSource : Robert Burton, William H. Gass (2001). “The Anatomy of Melancholy”, NYRB Classics
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“No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.”
-- Robert BurtonSource : Robert Burton (1800). “The anatomy of melancholy: what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostics, ... In three partitions. ... By Democritus junior. With a satyricall preface ... The ninth edition, corrected; to which is now first prefixed, an account of the author. ...”
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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.”
-- Robert BurtonSource : Robert Burton (1824). “The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are -- "traced from Within Its Inmost Centre to Its Outmost Skin."”, p.178
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“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”
-- Robert BurtonSource : The Anatomy of Melancholy pt. 3, sec. 2 (1621 - 1651)
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“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”
-- Robert BurtonSource : Robert Burton (1924). “The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse”
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“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
-- Robert BurtonSource : Robert Burton (1800). “The Anatomy of Melancholy; what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it: In Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members, and Sub-sections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up”, p.12
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