Robert Burton

English clergyman and writer

Lived from: 1577-1640

Category: Theologians and clergy | Writers (Contemporary)

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  A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

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  A mere scholar, a mere ass.

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  A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
  Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy Part I, sect. 2,3,6

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  All places are distant from heaven alike.
  Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy Part II, sect. 2, 4

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  England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

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  Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
  Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy Part III, sect. 1,3

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  Every man for himself, the devil for all.
  Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy

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  I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.

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  Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

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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.

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  No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
  Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy Part III, sect 2,1,2

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  No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

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  One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

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  The devil is the author of confusion.

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  The fear of death is worse than death.

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