Robert Burton
Robert Burton
An Oxford University scholar, he is best known for his classic 1621 work, The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also a mathematician and an amateur astrologer.
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth8 February 1577
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Why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters? Because every man of any fashion amongst them hath his mistress
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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
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Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee
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I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself
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I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy.
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We can say nothing but what hath been said
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Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven
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Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
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Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own
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Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel
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Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.
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To enlarge and illustrate this - is to set a candle in the sun.