They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.
Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy. - Robert Burton
Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
- Robert Burton
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb an… - Robert Burton
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb an…
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. - Robert Burton
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. - Robert Burton
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy. - Robert Burton
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself. - Robert Burton
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
What a glut of books! Who can read them? - Robert Burton
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. - Robert Burton
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. - Robert Burton
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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