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“Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.”

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

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

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

“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.”

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Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."”

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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.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.”

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Section 4, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness.”

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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.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”

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

“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."”

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

“Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.”

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Section 1, member 2, Lawful Cures, first from God.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases…but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.”

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Section 4, member 2, subsection 1, Purging Simples upward.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

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

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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.”

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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.”

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

“A good conscience is a continual feast.”

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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.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III