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Robert A Burton Inspirational Quotes (12)

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Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
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Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.
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Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.
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Out of too much learning become mad.
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Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.
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Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
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One was never married, and that's his hell another is, and that's his plague.
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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.
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Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.
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Naught so sweet as melancholy.
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Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To me, pretty good is a linguistic statistic that falls somewhere in between more likely than not and beyond a reasonable doubt, et avoides the pitfalls arising from the belief in complete objectivity.
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It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.
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