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Robert Burton Quotes
Brief author info: Robert Burton (1577-1640) English clergyman and writer.
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Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy.
Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.
Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.
They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
All places are distant from heaven alike.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
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Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it's letting go.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
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