Quotes by : Robert Burton

A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it,....

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.....

No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean....

They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean....

A quiet mind cureth all.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean....