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Robert Burton Quotes

«No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Love | Keywords: bind, cable, cables, cord, corded, draw, forcibly, thread
«If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Heart
«The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Success | Keywords: efficient, The Men
«Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Errors, Faith, Feelings, Illusion | Keywords: aspect
«One religion is as true as another»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Religion
«Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy»
«Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness»
«Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own»
«A quiet mind cureth all.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: quiet
«Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.»

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