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Robert Burton Quotes

«Be not solitary, be not idle»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Idleness
«Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer)
«He loves who advises»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: advises
«To enlarge and illustrate this - is to set a candle in the sun.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: enlarge, illustrate, illustrated, to enlarge
«A mere scholar, a mere ass.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: scholar
«Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: charges, forthwith, hanged, lay out, loath
«All poets are mad.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer)
«I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer)
«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.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Wealth | Keywords: bait, feed upon, fullest, full moon, general store, recede, recedes, receding, stores
«A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: dwarf, dwarfs
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