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

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. – Robert Burton

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Faith
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I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton

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Wine
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Other Quotes from
Words
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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger

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Words

A wise man hears one word and understands two. – Yiddish Proverb

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Words

Words of love, are works of love. – William R. Alger

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Words

When I was born I was so surprised I didnt talk for a year and a half. – Gracie Allen

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Words

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The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here. – Steve Forbes

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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. – Alfred Austin

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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself. – Meister Eckhart

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I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – Joan Didion

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