All Robert Burton Quotes
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
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Love
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Robert Burton
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton
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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
Robert Burton
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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.
Robert Burton
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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.
Robert Burton
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Robert Burton
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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.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
Robert Burton
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton
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Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
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