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“Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Like the watermen that row one way and look another.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels."”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Christ himself was poor… And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 11.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“They do not live but linger.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Can build castles in the air.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 3, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 12.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“All places are distant from heaven alike.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 4, Exercise rectified of Body and Mind.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 1, member 2, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“Our wrangling lawyers… are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,—some of them in hell.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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