Robert Burton - A blow with a word strikes deeper than a...

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Biography

Author Profession: Writer

Nationality: English

Born: February 8, 1577

Died: January 25, 1640

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Blow, Deeper, Strikes, Sword, Than, Word

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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Inspirational Life Love Work

Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.

Positive Work Learning Hope

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom Path Go Leave Trail

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love Light Forgiveness Darkness

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

People Government Constitution Moral

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Motivational Quality Habit Act

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

Together Most Must Hang

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Life Die Live Facts

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Inspirational Standing Others Seen

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Life Happiness Freedom Men

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

Myself I Am Well Then

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Inspirational Life Work You

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Me Walk Friend Behind

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wisdom You True Know Nothing

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