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Robert Burton
English
Writer
About the author
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Friends
#Old
#Enemies
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,
English
Writer
#Sun
#Moon
#Devil
#Happiness
#Wealth
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Life
#Love
#Night
#Nature
#Sun
#Summer
#Gay
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Love
#Power
#Effect
#Sun
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Hell
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Love
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Conscience
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Will
#Power
#Men
#Succeed
#Ambition
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#May
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Idleness
#Nobility
A quiet mind cureth all.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Mind
#Quiet
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#First
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Life
#Man
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Will
#Faith
#Illusion
#Error
#Feelings
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton,
English
Writer
#Word