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Top 25 Robert Burton Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert Burton Quote: “Be not solitary, be not idle.”

1. “Be not solitary, be not idle.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.”

2. “No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “What a glut of books! Who can read them?”

3. “What a glut of books! Who can read them?”

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Robert Burton Quote: “A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;’ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.”

4. “A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;’ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”

5. “A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.”

6. “There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.”

7. “Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “It is an old saying, “A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword”; and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrile and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-plays, or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.”

8. “It is an old saying, “A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword”; and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrile and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-plays, or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “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.”

9. “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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Robert Burton Quote: “The eyes are the harbingers of love, and the first step of love is sight.”

10. “The eyes are the harbingers of love, and the first step of love is sight.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “If you like not my writing, go read something else.”

11. “If you like not my writing, go read something else.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “We are thus bad by nature, bad by kind, but far worse by art, every man the greatest enemy unto himself.”

12. “We are thus bad by nature, bad by kind, but far worse by art, every man the greatest enemy unto himself.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “I would advise him that is actually melancholy not to read this tract of Symptoms, lest he disquiet or make himself for a time worse, and more melancholy than he was before.”

13. “I would advise him that is actually melancholy not to read this tract of Symptoms, lest he disquiet or make himself for a time worse, and more melancholy than he was before.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “One religion is as true as another.”

14. “One religion is as true as another.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “If you have no dreams, you shall live within them.”

15. “If you have no dreams, you shall live within them.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “Let thy fortune be what it will, ’tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.”

16. “Let thy fortune be what it will, ’tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.”

17. “As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”

18. “He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.”

19. “Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.”

20. “We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.”

21. “Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.”

22. “Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “Look into our histories, and you shall almost meet with no other subject but what a company of hare-brains have done in their rage.”

23. “Look into our histories, and you shall almost meet with no other subject but what a company of hare-brains have done in their rage.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “As a Dutch host, if you come to an inn in Germnay and dislike your fare, diet, lodging, etc., replies in a surly tone, Aliud tibi quaeras diversorium, If you like not this, get you to another inn: I resolve, if you like not my writing, go read something else.”

24. “As a Dutch host, if you come to an inn in Germnay and dislike your fare, diet, lodging, etc., replies in a surly tone, Aliud tibi quaeras diversorium, If you like not this, get you to another inn: I resolve, if you like not my writing, go read something else.”

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Robert Burton Quote: “Riches do not so much exhilarate us with their possession, as they torment us with their loss.”

25. “Riches do not so much exhilarate us with their possession, as they torment us with their loss.”

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