Quotes of Robert Burton - somelinesforyou

“ What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love’s the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. ”

- Robert Burton

“ A quiet mind cureth all. ”

- Robert Burton

“ All Poets are mad. ”

- Robert Burton

“ That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing. ”

- Robert Burton

“ What a glut of books! Who can read them? ”

- Robert Burton

“ What a glut of books! Who can read them? ”

- Robert Burton

“ That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Though it rain daggers with their points downward. ”

- Robert Burton

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

- Robert Burton

“ Though it rain daggers with their points downward. ”

- Robert Burton

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

- Robert Burton

“ Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. ”

- Robert Burton

“ From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. ”

- Robert Burton

“ From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. ”

- Robert Burton

“ We can say nothing but what hath been said... Our poets steal from Homer.... Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves. ”

- Robert Burton

“ As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it. ”

- Robert Burton

“ For I light my candle from their torches. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Birds of a feather will gather together. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Let the burden never be so heavy; love makes it light. ”

- Robert Burton

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

- Robert Burton

“ Though it rain daggers with their points downward. ”

- Robert Burton

“ From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Out of too much learning become mad. ”

- Robert Burton

“ I would help others out of a fellow-feeling. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. ”

- Robert Burton

“ 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
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