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Robert Burton (17)

Birth:	8th February, 1577
Death:	25th January, 1640
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author

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Robert Burton was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Segrave in Leicestershire.

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

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• A good conscience is a continual feast.

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

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• A quiet mind cureth all.

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

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• Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

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

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• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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