"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."
― Robert Burton
Topic(s):
Love
More From Robert Burton
- "Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."
- "One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague."
- "Worldly wealth is the Devil’s 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."
More In Love
- "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."― Dalai Lama
- "We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving."― Bernard Meltzer
- "This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess."― Rainer Maria Rilke