Robert Burton quotes

Robert Burton was an English scholar and writer, best known for his work "The Anatomy of Melancholy." His book combined scientific, philosophical, and literary insights to examine human emotions and mental health. He became influential for his unique blend of wit, learning, and deep observation of human nature. Here are 113 of his quotes:

A good conscience is a continual feast. (Robert Burton)
All poets are mad. View quote
Robert Burton
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. View quote
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Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself. View quote
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We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars. View quote
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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. View quote
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They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. View quote
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One religion is as true as another. View quote
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. View quote
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Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. View quote
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I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. (Robert Burton)
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. View quote
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. View quote
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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long. View quote
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[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. View quote
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Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? View quote
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Be not solitary, be not idle. View quote
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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. View quote
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility. View quote
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Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,-the one to be held by, the other not. View quote
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England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes. (Robert Burton)
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. View quote
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We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best. View quote
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As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?" View quote
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Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base. View quote
Robert Burton

Robert Burton

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Occupation: English Writer
Born: January 29, 1577
Died: January 25, 1640
Quotes count: 113
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