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“No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.”

Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, How Love tyranniseth over men. Love, or Heroical Melancholy, his definition, part affected.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.”

Section 2, member 3, subsection 13, Love of Gaming, &c. and pleasures immoderate; Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

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

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

“A good conscience is a continual feast.”

Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.”

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

“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”

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

“Women wear the breeches.”

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

“All poets are mad.”

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

“Rob Peter, and pay Paul.”

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