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Robert Burton quotes: The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

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

If you have no dreams, you shall live within them

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Burton quotes: I light my candle from their torches.

I light my candle from their torches.

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

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

Robert Burton quotes: Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

Robert Burton quotes: He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.

He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.

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

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

Robert Burton quotes: All Poets are mad.

All Poets are mad.

Robert Burton quotes: What cannot be cured must be endured.

What cannot be cured must be endured.

Robert Burton quotes: Be not solitary, be not idle

Be not solitary, be not idle

Robert Burton quotes: A quiet mind cureth all.

A quiet mind cureth all.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Burton quotes: One religion is as true as another.

One religion is as true as another.

Robert Burton quotes: Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Robert Burton quotes: That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

Robert Burton quotes: Every man for himself, the devil for all.

Every man for himself, the devil for all.

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

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

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

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