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Letter "R" » Robert Burton
"Put his shoulder to the wheel."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Action
"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."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Ambition
"Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report
sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a
company of boys about him."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Beggary
"Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.
[Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil.]"
Author: Robert Burton
About: Beggary
"Birds of a feather will gather together."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Birds
"Like the watermen that row one way and look another."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Boating
"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Books and Reading
"Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . .
he had two distinct persons in him."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Character
"[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio
doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call
changelings."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Childhood
"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Childhood
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