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Robert Burton
We can make...
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Source: In The...
Idleness is an...
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy, pt. 1, sct. 2,...
No rule is...
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Source: In The Speaker's...
Like dogs in...
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor,...
Diseases . ....
Diseases . . . crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples,...
A mere scholar,...
A mere scholar, a mere ass.
Source: In
All poets are...
All poets are mad.
Source: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'
-- Robert Burton, (Feb 8...
A blow with...
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Source: 'The Anatomy of...
From this it...
From this it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
Source:...
Our wrangling lawyers...
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients'...
All places are...
All places are distant from heaven alike.
Source: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'
--...
All my joys...
All my joys to this are folly,
Naught so sweet as Melancholy.
Source: Anatomy of...
I write of...
I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy.
Source: 'The Anatomy of...
What can't be...
What can't be cured must be endured.
Source: In
They are proud...
They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
Source: In
What is a...
What is a ship but a prison?
Source: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' [The thought was...
If there is...
If there is a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
The devil is...
The devil is the author of confusion.
Source: In
Be not solitary,...
Be not solitary, be not idle.
Source: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy', the closing...
Old friends become...
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Source:...