Robert Burton Quotes

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

  Robert Burton

  Love, Dream, Umbilical Cord

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• Un enano a hombros de un gigante puede ver más lejos que el propio gigante.

  Robert Burton

  Motivational, Eye, Dwarves

  The Anatomy of Melancholy "Democritus Junior to the Reader" (1621 - 1651) See Bernard of Chartres 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1

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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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  Mind, Miserable, Rich

  Robert Burton (1857). “The Anatomy of melancholy”, p.366

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• Be not solitary, be not idle

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  Solitary, Idle

  The Anatomy of Melancholy pt. 3, sec. 4 (1621 - 1651) See Samuel Johnson 97

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• If you like not my writing, go read something else.

  Robert Burton

  Escribir, Si

  Robert Burton (1859). “The anatomy of melancholy: what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it. In three partitions ...”, p.42

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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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  Inspirational, Confidence, Ambition

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

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  Friendship, Old Friends, Enemy

  Robert Burton (1924). “The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse”

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• Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

  Robert Burton

  Overcoming, Melancholy

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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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  Real, Moon, Mind

  Robert Burton (1824). “The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are -- "traced from Within Its Inmost Centre to Its Outmost Skin."”, p.178

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

  Robert Burton

  Excepción

  Robert Burton (1800). “The anatomy of melancholy: what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostics, ... In three partitions. ... By Democritus junior. With a satyricall preface ... The ninth edition, corrected; to which is now first prefixed, an account of the author. ...”

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• Ellos [es decir, los hombres ambiciosos] no pueden cesar, sino como un perro en una rueda, un pájaro en una jaula, o una ardilla en una cadena, así los compara Budaeus; suben y suben todavía, con mucho trabajo, pero nunca llegan a un fin, nunca a la cima.

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  Dog, Business, Ambition

  "La Anatomía de la Melancolía". Libro de Robert Burton, 1621.

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• What a glut of books! Who can read them?

  Robert Burton

  Reserve

  Robert Burton (1955). “The Anatomy of Melancholy: Now for the First Time with the Latin Completely Given in Translation and Embodied in an All-English Text”

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• [T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

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  Thinking, Self Loathing, Self Hatred

  Robert Burton (1800). “The Anatomy of Melancholy; what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it: In Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members, and Sub-sections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up”, p.12

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• Podemos hacer alcaldes y funcionarios cada año, pero no becarios.

  Robert Burton

  Years, Mayors, Scholar

  Robert Burton, William H. Gass (2001). “The Anatomy of Melancholy”, NYRB Classics

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

  Robert Burton

  Love, Passion, Power

  The Anatomy of Melancholy pt. 3, sec. 2 (1621 - 1651)

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