| 81 Famous Quotes by Robert Burton
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“There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.”
Melancholy Quotes |
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“Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy, a proverb quoted by him in the introduction
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“No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sc. II, memb. 2, subsect. 3)
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“Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, memb. 3)
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“Going as if he trod upon eggs.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. II, memb. 3)
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“Penny wise, pound foolish.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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“A man convinced against his will,
Is of the some opinion still.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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“Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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“Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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“I am not now in fortune's power,
He that is down can fall no lower.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsec. I)
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“Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.”
Education Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, mem. I, 1)
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“Out of too much learning become mad.”
Learning Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. 4, memb. 1, subsec. 2)
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“Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes
hereafter, some of them in hell.”
Law Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves
two, all the world else is blinde.”
Eyes Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 6, p. 40)
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“They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.”
Conscience Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. IV, memb. 2, subsect. 3)
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“All places are distant from heaven alike.”
Heaven Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. III, Memb. 4)
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“Put his shoulder to the wheel.”
Action Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sect. I, memb. 2)
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“England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a
paradise for horses, hell for women.”
England Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 1, subsect. 2)
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“Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . .
he had two distinct persons in him.”
Character Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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“Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?”
Example Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 2)
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“Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.”
Murder Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. I, memb. II, subsec. V)
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“Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.”
Churches Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. 1, subsec. 1)
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“He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.”
Fashion Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 3)
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“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”
Shoemaking Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 34), (ed. 1887)
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