All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy. - Robert Burton

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All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.

Robert Burton

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About Robert Burton

Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English writer and scholar at Oxford University (at Christ Church), known chiefly for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy.

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Pen Names: Democritus junior

Alternative Names: Democritus Junior

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What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Many things happen between the cup and the lip.