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As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?"
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2.
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.[190:1]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2.
Christ himself was poor. . . . And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor.[190:2]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
Who cannot give good counsel? 'T is cheap, it costs them nothing.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.[190:3]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
All places are distant from heaven alike.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 4.
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The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 6.
"Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.
Birds of a feather will gather together.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1.
And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.[191:1]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 3.
Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.[191:2]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 3.
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.[191:3]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3.
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[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 4.
Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.[192:1]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5.
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5.
Though it rain daggers with their points downward.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
I light my candle from their torches.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 5, Subsect. 1.
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.[192:2]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1.
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.[192:3]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1.
Make a virtue of necessity.[192:4]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1.
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.[192:5]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.
If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
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For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.[193:1]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.[193:2]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
Out of too much learning become mad.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3.
Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 5.
When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.[193:3]
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1.
One religion is as true as another.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3.
[185:2] See Fletcher, page 184.
There 's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Hood: Ode to Melancholy.
[185:3] Dr. Johnson said Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. And Byron said, "If the reader has patience to go through his volumes, he will be more improved for literary conversation than by the perusal of any twenty other works with which I am acquainted."—Works, vol. i. p. 144.
[185:4] A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.—Garrick: Prologue on quitting the stage.
Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco (Being not unacquainted with woe, I learn to help the unfortunate).—Virgil: Æneid, lib. i. 630.
[185:5] See Shakespeare, page 84.
[185:6] Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius (There is nothing said which has not been said before).—Terence: Eunuchus. Prol. 10.
[185:7] A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.—Herbert: Jacula Prudentum.
A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.—Coleridge: The Friend, sect. i. essay viii.
Pigmæi gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident (Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves).—Didacus Stella in Lucan, 10, tom. ii.
[186:1] Le style est l'homme même (The style is the man himself).—Buffon: Discours de Réception (Recueil de l'Académie, 1750).
[186:2] Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.—Montaigne: Apology for Raimond Sebond, book ii. chap. xii.
[186:3] Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.—Plutarch: Whether 't was rightfully said, Live concealed.
Like rowers, who advance backward.—Montaigne: Of Profit and Honour, book iii. chap. i.
[186:4] See Shakespeare, page 132.
[186:5] See Heywood, page 15.
[186:6] See Heywood, page 14. Rabelais: book i. chap. xi.
[186:7] Æsop: Fables, book v. fable v.
[186:8]
He left a corsair's name to other times,
Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes.
Byron: The Corsair, canto iii. stanza 24.
[187:1] See Fletcher, page 183.
[187:2] "Castles in the air,"—Montaigne, Sir Philip Sidney, Massinger, Sir Thomas Browne, Giles Fletcher, George Herbert, Dean Swift, Broome, Fielding, Cibber, Churchill, Shenstone, and Lloyd.
[187:3] Oats,—a grain which is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.—Samuel Johnson: Dictionary of the English Language.
[187:4] Carpet knights are men who are by the prince's grace and favour made knights at home. . . . They are called carpet knights because they receive their honours in the court and upon carpets.—Markham: Booke of Honour (1625).
"Carpet knights,"—Du Bartas (ed. 1621), p. 311.
[187:5] The exception proves the rule.
[188:1] See Shakespeare, page 50.
[188:2]
Qui vino indulget, quemque alea decoquit, ille
In venerem putret
(He who is given to drink, and he whom the dice are despoiling, is the one who rots away in sexual vice).—Persius: Satires, satire v.
[188:3]
His favourite sin
Is pride that apes humility.
Southey: The Devil's Walk.
[189:1] When Abraham Lincoln heard of the death of a private, he said he was sorry it was not a general: "I could make more of them."
[189:2] Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'épée (So far had the pen under the king the superiority over the sword).—Saint Simon: Mémoires, vol. iii. p. 517 (1702), ed. 1856.
The pen is mightier than the sword.—Bulwer Lytton: Richelieu, act ii. sc. 2.
[189:3]
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead,
Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
Anonymous.
Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim,
Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.
Thomas Seward: On Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford-upon-Avon.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead;
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.
Thomas Heywood: Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.
[189:4] A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.—Johnson: Piazzi, 52.
[190:1] Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll outride the Devil.—Bohn: Foreign Proverbs (German).
[190:2] See Wotton, page 174.
[190:3] There is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.—Hazlitt: English Proverbs.
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose; and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.—Greene: Perimedes the Blacksmith (1588).
[191:1] See Heywood, page 11.
[191:2] See Heywood, page 20.
[191:3]
Those curious locks so aptly twin'd,
Whose every hair a soul doth bind.
Carew: Think
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