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Quotations by author » Robert Burton
English Writer and Clergyman, 1577-1640
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The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Success
There is something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive
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They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud
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They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works
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This spring has been great for Kmart and other retailers, ... Hopefully, the consumer will continue to come out, the weather will continue to remain warm and we will go right into summer without missing a step.
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This spring has been great for Kmart and other retailers. Hopefully, the consumer will continue to come out, the weather will continue to remain warm and we will go right into summer without missing a step.
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To enlarge and illustrate this - is to set a candle in the sun.
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Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own
Truth
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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We can say nothing but what hath been said
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We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . he that comes last is commonly best.
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Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.
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What is a ship but a prison?
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
LifeNature
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel
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Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing
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Why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters? Because every man of any fashion amongst them hath his mistress
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Wit without employment is a disease
Disease
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.
Wealth
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