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English priest, Birth: 8-2-1577, Death: 25-1-1640
1.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton

2.
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton

3.
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
Robert Burton

4.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Robert Burton

5.
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

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6.
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton

7.
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.
Robert Burton

8.
Be not solitary, be not idle
Robert Burton

Quote Topics by Robert Burton: Mind Ambition Love Self Hatred Dwarves Business Eye Melancholy Rich Moon Solitary Confidence Umbilical Cord Book Inspirational Dream Passion Ifs Mayors Old Friends Self Loathing Enemy Thinking Motivational Dog Miserable Overcoming Real Idle Power
9.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton

10.
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Robert Burton

11.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton

12.
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
Robert Burton

13.
If you like not my writing, go read something else.
Robert Burton

14.
Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
Robert Burton

15.
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
Robert Burton