Robert Burton Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous Robert Burton quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American writer who passed away on 29 September, 1962.
“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”
“A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.”
“A quiet mind cureth all.”
“No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.”
“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.”
“Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.”
“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”
“The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.”
“Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.”
“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”
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