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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.Robert Burton
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No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find, My subject is of man, and human kind.Robert Burton
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They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.Robert Burton
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If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.Robert Burton
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Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.Robert Burton
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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.Robert Burton
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Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.Robert Burton
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To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.Robert Burton
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Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.Robert Burton
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.Robert Burton
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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.Robert Burton
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.Robert Burton
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.Robert Burton
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A quiet mind cureth all.Robert Burton