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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. — Robert Burton

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. — Robert A. Burton

The eyes are the harbingers of love, and the first step of love is sight. — Robert Burton

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. — Robert Burton

They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud. — Robert A. Burton

What a glut of books! Who can read them? — Robert Burton

If you have no dreams, you shall live within them — Robert Burton

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. — Robert Burton

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. — Robert Burton

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. — Robert Burton

Out of too much learning become mad. — Robert A. Burton

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us. — Robert A. Burton

Naught so sweet as melancholy. — Robert A. Burton

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man. — Robert A. Burton

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. — Robert A. Burton

Build castles in the air. — Robert A. Burton

He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow. — Robert Burton

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy. — Robert Burton

I light my candle from their torches. — Robert Burton

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion. — Robert A. Burton

No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,
My subject is of man, and human kind. — Robert Burton

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. — Robert Burton

If you like not my writing, go read something else. — Robert Burton

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. — Robert Burton

What cannot be cured must be endured. — Robert Burton

Be not solitary, be not idle — Robert Burton

He is only fantastical that is not in fashion. — Robert A. Burton

A quiet mind cureth all. — Robert Burton

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself. — Robert Burton

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. — Robert A. Burton

I would desire to have no other prison than a library, and to be chained together with as many good authors. — 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

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end. — Robert A. Burton

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy. — Robert Burton

As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences. — Robert Burton

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as [love] can do with a single thread. — Robert Burton

Every man for himself, the devil for all. — Robert Burton

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. — Robert Burton

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. — Robert Burton

Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things. — Robert Burton

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. — Robert Burton

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity. — Robert A. Burton

Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed. — Robert A. Burton

Idleness is an appendix to nobility. — Robert Burton

Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations. — Robert A. Burton

One religion is as true as another. — Robert Burton

Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. — Robert A. Burton

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

All Poets are mad. — Robert Burton

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. — Robert Burton