Zitate von Robert Burton
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Robert Burton:
Besonders melancholische Männer sind sehr geistvoll.
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Philosoph, Geistlicher (England, 1577 - 1640).
Robert Burton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Robert Burton wäre heute 447 Jahre, 2 Monate, 23 Tage oder 163.346 Tage alt.
Geboren am 08.02.1577
Gestorben am 25.01.1640
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann
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Weitere 49 Zitate von Robert Burton
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He whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.
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Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
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Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
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Humor purges the blood, making the body young, lively, and fit for any manner of employment.
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I had not time to lick it into form, as she [a bear] doth her young ones.
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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.
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I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy.
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If there is a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
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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.
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Like watermen, that row one way and look another.
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Melancholy Men of all others are most witty.
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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
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No happiness is like unto it, no love so great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife.
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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One religion is as true as another.
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
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Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
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The fear of death is worse than death.
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The gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
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The greatest provocations of lust are from our apparell.
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