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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

“They do not live but linger.”

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

“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”

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

“Can build castles in the air.”

Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
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.”

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

“All places are distant from heaven alike.”

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.”

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

“Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.”

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