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Going as if he trod upon eggs. (Robert Burton)

Birds of a feather will gather together.

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Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.

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As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.

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[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.

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Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain.... And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on.

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Though it rain daggers with their points downward.

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To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.

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Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.

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They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.

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Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place. (Robert Burton)

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

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All our geese are swans.

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Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.

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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.

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Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.

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The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."

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The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.

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Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness.

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Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

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Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him." (Robert Burton)

Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.

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Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

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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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The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

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Robert Burton

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

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