The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
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“Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us.”
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Section 2, member 3, subsection 14.
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“And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.”
Section 1, member 3.
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“He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 3.
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“Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.”
Section 3, member 1, subsection 3.
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“Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.”
Section 2, member 3, Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
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“Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.”
Section 1, member 1, subsection 1.
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“Birds of a feather will gather together.”
Section 1, member 1, subsection 2, Love's Beginning, Object, Definition, Division.
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“Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.”
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“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
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Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
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“We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 15, Love of Learning, or overmuch study. With a Digression of the misery of Scholars, and why the Muses are Melancholy.
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Section 2, member 2, subsection 1.
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“Though it rain daggers with their points downward.”
Section 2, member 3.
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“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”
Section 2, member 4, subsection 7, A heap of other Accidents causing Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, etc.
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“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”
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“To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 4.
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“Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.”
Section 2, member 3.
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“Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.”
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“They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.”
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3.
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Section 3, member 1, subsection 2.
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Section 4, member 1, subsection 5.
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Section 1, member 1, subsection 1.
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“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 5.
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Section 2, member 3, subsection 14.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 1.
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“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 5, The last and best Cure of Love-Melancholy, is to let them have their Desire.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 2, Of the Force of Imagination.
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Section 2, member 3, subsection 12, Covetousness, a Cause.
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“Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 5.
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“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.”
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
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Section 2, member 6, Perturbations of the mind rectified. From himself, by resisting to the utmost, confessing his grief to a friend, etc.
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“The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.”
Section 4, member 1, subsection 3.
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Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
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“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 2.
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Section 2, member 4, subsection 6.
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“Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.”
Section 1, member 2, Lawful Cures, first from God.
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Section 4, member 2, subsection 1, Purging Simples upward.
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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.
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Section 2, member 3, subsection 13, Love of Gaming, &c. and pleasures immoderate; Causes.
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“They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”
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“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.
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“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.”
Ed. 6, p. 40.
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“Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.”
Section 2, member 2.
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“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 12, Covetousness, a Cause.
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