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Robert Burton

Robert Burton (1577-1640) was an English clergyman, born in Leicestershire. He was scholar of Christ Church, Oxford and lived chiefly in Oxford, spending his time in it for some 50 years in study. He was the author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy," which he wrote to alleviate his own depression of mind, a book which is a perfect mosaic of quotations on every conceivable topic, familiar and unfamiliar, from every manner of source.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • Be not solitary, be not idle.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, the closing words
  • England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb (proverb) goes
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • All poets are mad.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • One religion is as true as another.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • What is a ship but a prison?
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent, tobacco… a sovereign remedy to all diseases; But, as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • All places are distant from heaven alike.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy

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