Robert Burton quotes - page 2

Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,-some of them in hell. (Robert Burton)
Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs. View quote
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Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing. View quote
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Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end. View quote
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Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play. View quote
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I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling. View quote
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Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun. View quote
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As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it. View quote
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Many things happen between the cup and the lip. View quote
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Penny wise, pound foolish. View quote
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Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her. (Robert Burton)
They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud. View quote
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Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all. View quote
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When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done. View quote
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For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness. View quote
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If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. View quote
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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. View quote
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What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation? View quote
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A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. View quote
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Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy. View quote
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Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves. (Robert Burton)
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself. View quote
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If you like not my writing, go read something else. View quote
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A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich. View quote
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All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy. View quote
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