No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
What a glut of books! Who can read them? - Robert Burton
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
- Robert Burton
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. - Robert Burton
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.
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 inc… - Robert Burton
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 inc…
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. - Robert Burton
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy. - Robert Burton
Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. - Robert Burton
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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…
[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.
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