Robert Burton on Religion
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Robert Burton, catalogued under Religion, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Robert Burton, entry #180666: "Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place."
Attributed to Robert Burton, entry #237515: "Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity."
5 Quotes by Robert Burton on Religion
"Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place."
"Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity."
"Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel."
"All places are distant from heaven alike."
"Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul."