24 Quotes by Robert A. Burton


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    Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.

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    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.

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

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

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

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    Employment, which Galen calls ‘Nature’s Physician,’ is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

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    Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher’s stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.

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