Author: Robert Burton

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Robert Burton

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

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

- Robert Burton

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

- Robert Burton

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

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

- Robert Burton

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

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

- Robert Burton

A good conscience is a continual feast.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

- Robert Burton

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

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

- Robert Burton

A quiet mind cureth all.

A quiet mind cureth all.

- Robert Burton

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