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Robert Burton Inspirational Quotes (23)

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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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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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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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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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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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What a glut of books! Who can read them?
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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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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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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.
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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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[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
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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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They [i.e. 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.
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Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
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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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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
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It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.
Robert A. Burton