69 ordspråk av Robert Burton
Robert Burton
Robert Burton föddes den February 8th 1577 och dog den 25 January 1640 - English writer
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 Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both |
| From this it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword. |
| Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet. |
| Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. |
| Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. |
| He loves who advises |
| He that comes last is commonly best |
| 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 |
| Hope ye unhappy ones; ye happy ones, fear. |
| How much more cruel the pen may be than the sword |
| I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. |
| I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself |
| I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy. |
| Idleness is an appendix to nobility |
| If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart |
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