| 81 Famous Quotes by Robert Burton
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“Many things happen between the cup and the lip.”
Fate Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. II, memb. 3)
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“He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.”
Opportunity Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5), quoted
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“Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.”
Matrimony Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. II, mem. 5, subs. 5)
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“He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.”
Choice Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5), quoted
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“See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea,
one river, and see all.”
Nature Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. 2, memb. 4, subsec. 7)
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“'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they
may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy
face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more
as bad in a moment.”
Contention Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sc. 3, mem. 7)
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“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”
Contention Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 195)
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“They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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“We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal
from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes
last is commonly best.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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“And 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.”
Misers Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 12)
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“A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.”
Misers Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 13)
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“Penny wise, pound foolish.”
Money Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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“Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to
worship by all means the gods of the place.”
Worship Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec,. IV, memb. 1, subsec. 5)
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“Call a spade a spade.”
Names Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritis Junior to the Reader (p. 11)
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“One religion is as true as another.”
Religion Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (bk. III, sec. IV, memb. 2, subsec, 1)
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“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”
Help Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 195)
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“I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.”
Kindness Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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“When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.”
Rome Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (III, 4, 2)
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“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”
Cookery Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsec. 2)
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“The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride,
Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.
[Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores,
Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.]”
Medicine Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (I, 2, 3, 15)
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“[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry
them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as
so many anatomies.”
Disease Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sc. 2, memb. 3, subsect. 10)
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“For idleness is an appendix to nobility.”
Idleness Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 6)
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“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time,
which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but
which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction
for the life of man.”
Idleness Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 6)
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“From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the
sword.
[Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus saevior euse, patet.]”
Pen Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. XXI, mem. 4, subsec. 4)
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“Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]”
Experience Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy, a proverb quoted by him in the introduction
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