RBRobert Burton

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Robert Burton

Life dates: 1576 AD — 1640 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1608 AD

Though it rain daggers with their points downward.

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02c. 1608 AD

Going as if he trod upon eggs.

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03c. 1608 AD

I light my candle from their torches.

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04c. 1608 AD

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.

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05c. 1608 AD

The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.

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06c. 1608 AD

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.

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07c. 1608 AD

Make a virtue of necessity.

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08c. 1608 AD

Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.

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09c. 1608 AD

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

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10c. 1608 AD

For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.

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11c. 1608 AD

The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.

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12c. 1608 AD

Out of too much learning become mad.

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13c. 1608 AD

The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.

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14c. 1608 AD

Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.

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15c. 1608 AD

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.

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16c. 1608 AD

One religion is as true as another.

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17c. 1608 AD

They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.

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18c. 1608 AD

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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19c. 1608 AD

All Poets are mad.

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20c. 1608 AD

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

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21c. 1608 AD

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

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22c. 1608 AD

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.

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23c. 1608 AD

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

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24c. 1608 AD

No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.

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