Top Ten Best Sir Richard Francis Burton Quotes & Written Works

Sir Richard Francis Burton was a British consul, explorer, translator, writer, poet, soldier, cartographer, geographer, linguist, fencer, diplomat, ethnologist, spy, orientalist and swordsman known for travel and exploration as well as his highly extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures.
The Top Ten
1 Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun?
2 The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
3 The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.
4 Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue: Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.
5 How melancholy a thing is success.Whilst failure inspirits a man,attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories"Are shadows,not substantial things".."disappointment is..salt of life"a salutary bitter which strengthens..mind for fresh exertion
6 Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
7 All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
8 Who save the madman dares to cry: "'Tis I am right, you all are wrong"? "You all are right, you all are wrong," we hear the careless Soofi say, "For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day."
9 "Fools rush where Angels fear to tread!" Angels and Fools have equal claim To do what Nature bids them do, sans hope of praise, sans fear of blame!
10 How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show?Why meanly bargain to believe,which only means thou ne'er canst know?How may the passing Now contain the standing Now—Eternity?—An endless"is"without a "was",the 'be' & never the"to-b
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