Robert Burton Quotes and Quotations
They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud. If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature. Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity. Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity. Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity. No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
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