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“Make a virtue of necessity.”

Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

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

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader

“Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.”

Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“Many things happen between the cup and the lip.”

Section 2, member 3, Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“Penny wise, pound foolish.”

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader

“Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.”

Section 2, member 6, Perturbations of the mind rectified. From himself, by resisting to the utmost, confessing his grief to a friend, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“Be not solitary, be not idle.”

Section 4, member 2, subsection 6, Cure of Despair by Physic, Good Counsel, Comforts, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.”

Section 2, member 3, subsection 14, Philautia, or Self-love, Vainglory, Praise, Honour, Immoderate Applause, Pride, overmuch Joy, etc., Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“One religion is as true as another.”

Section 4, member 2, subsection 1, Religious Melancholy in defect; parties affected, Epicures, Atheists, Hypocrites, worldly secure, Carnalists; all impious persons, impenitent sinners, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.”

Section 4, member 2, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.”

Section 4, member 1, subsection 2, Causes of Religious melancholy. From the Devil by miracles, apparitions, oracles. His instruments or factors, politicians, Priests, Impostors, Heretics, blind guides. In them simplicity, fear, blind zeal, ignorance, solitariness, curiosity, pride, vainglory, presumption, &c. his engines, fasting, solitariness, hope, fear, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.”

Section 2, member 2, subsection 3, Custom of Diet, Delight, Appetite, Necessity, how they cause or hinder.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.”

Section 4, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?”

Section 4, member 2, subsection 4, Symptoms of Despair, Fear, Sorrow, Suspicion, Anxiety, Horror of Conscience, Fearful Dreams and Visions.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”

Section 2, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III