Robert Burton Quotes

• Be not solitary, be not idle.

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• A passion of the brain, as all other melancholy, by reason of corrupt imagination.

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• Of women’s unnatural, unsatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?

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• No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. The scorching beams under the equinoctial or extremity of cold within the circle Arctic, where the very seas are frozen, cold or torrid zone cannot avoid or expel this heat, fury, and rage of mortal men.

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• But this love of ours is immoderate, inordinate, and not to be comprehended in any bounds. It will not contain itself within the union of marriage or apply to one object, but is a wandering, extravagant, a domineering, a boundless, an irrefragable, a destructive passion.

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• Tobacco, divine, rare, super excellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all their 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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• What is a ship but a prison?

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• Who cannot give good counsel? ’tis cheap, it costs them nothing.

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• One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.

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• See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

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• From this it is clear how much the pen is worse than the sword.

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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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• A loose, plain, rude writer… I call a spade a spade.

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• All poets are mad.

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• All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.

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• Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes’ bastards.

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• A good conscience is a continual feast.

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• A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

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• A quiet mind cureth all.

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• Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

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Robert Burton (32)

Birth:	8th February, 1577
Death:	25th January, 1640
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author

About

Robert Burton was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Segrave in Leicestershire.

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