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01c. 1608 AD

They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

Robert Burton / quote

02c. 1608 AD

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

Robert Burton / quote

03c. 1608 AD

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.

Robert Burton / quote

04c. 1608 AD

To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

Robert Burton / quote

05c. 1608 AD

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 / quote

06c. 1608 AD

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

Robert Burton / quote

07c. 1608 AD

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

Robert Burton / quote

08c. 1608 AD

A quiet mind cureth all.

Robert Burton / quote