82 Quotes by Robert Burton

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

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    A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;’ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.

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

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

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

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    I would advise him that is actually melancholy not to read this tract of Symptoms, lest he disquiet or make himself for a time worse, and more melancholy than he was before.

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    It is an old saying, “A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword”; and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrile and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-plays, or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.

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    There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.

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