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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  1. Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong. - Robert A. Heinlein

  2. You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. What you can't get is just what suits you. - French Proverb

  4. The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. - Toni Cade Bambara

  5. The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted. - A. S. Byatt

More Quotes By Robert Burton
  1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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