“I light my candle from their torches.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 5, subsection 1.
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Quotes from bookThe Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621, but republished five more times over the next seventeen years with massive alterations and expansions.
“Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 1, member 3.
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“A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 6.
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“Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
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“The pen worse than the sword.”
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet.
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
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“What can't be cured must be endured.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3.
Variant: What can't be cured must be endured.
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“Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 3, Member 2, Remedies against discontents.
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“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
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“He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
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“If you like not my writing, go read something else.”
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“A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”
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“Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 2, subsection 6. Immoderate Exercise a cause, and how. Solitariness, Idleness.
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“A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 12, Covetousness, a Cause.
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“All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
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The Author's Abstract.
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“Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, A Digression of the nature of Spirits, bad Angels, or Devils, and how they cause Melancholy.
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“Out of too much learning become mad.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 4, member 1, subsection 2.
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“See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 4, subsection 7.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
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