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“[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

“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Going as if he trod upon eggs.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 4, subsection 6.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“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.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

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