Robert Burton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Love #Dream #Thread
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
-- Robert Burton

#Motivational #Eye #Dwarves
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
-- Robert Burton

#Inspirational #Confidence #Ambition
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
-- Robert Burton

#Dog #Business #Ambition
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
-- Robert Burton

#Mind #Miserable #Rich
Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
-- Robert Burton

#Overcoming #Melancholy
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
-- Robert Burton

#Book
If you like not my writing, go read something else.
-- Robert Burton

#Writing
Be not solitary, be not idle
-- Robert Burton

#Solitary #Idle
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
-- Robert Burton

#Years #Mayors #Scholar
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
-- Robert Burton

#Exception
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.
-- Robert Burton

#Real #Moon #Mind
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
-- Robert Burton

#Love #Passion #Power
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
-- Robert Burton

#Friendship #Old Friends #Enemy
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
-- Robert Burton

#Thinking #Self Loathing #Self Hatred

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