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Robert Burton
English scholar (1577-1640)
Robert Burton was an English writer and fellow of Oxford University, best known for his encyclopedic book The Anatomy of Melancholy.
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As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars; kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed.
And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.
Who cannot give good counsel? T'is cheap, it costs them nothing.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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