We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from…

Quote byRobert Burton · 1577–1640

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Democritus Junior to the Reader.

English (original)

We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.

— Robert Burton

I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.

I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

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

All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy.

The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.