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Quote by Robert Burton
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. - Robe

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. – Robert Burton

Other quotes by Robert Burton

Worldly wealth is the Devils bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. – Robert Burton

Category:
Happiness
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Robert Burton
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. – Robert Burton

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Love
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Robert Burton
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Other Quotes from
Words
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If I where to describe myself in one word, a new word should be made. – Anonymous

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Words

All words are pegs to hang ideas on. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Words

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Words

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. – Chinese Proverb

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Words

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The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science. – Phillip E. Johnson

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. – Joseph Conrad

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