“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It. in Three Partitions; With Their ... Medically, Historically Opened and Cut Up
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“Riches do not so much exhilarate us with their possession, as they torment us with their loss.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find, My subject is of man, and human kind.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It ; in Three Partitions; With Their ... Historically Opened and Cut Up, V
“If you like not my writing, go read something else.”
Source: The anatomy of melancholy: what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it. In three partitions ...
“What a glut of books! Who can read them?”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy: Now for the First Time with the Latin Completely Given in Translation and Embodied in an All-English Text
“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse
“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are --
“No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.”
“A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.”
“No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.”
Source: The anatomy of melancholy: what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostics, ... In three partitions. ... By Democritus junior. With a satyricall preface ... The ninth edition, corrected; to which is now first prefixed, an account of the author. ...
“We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy; what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it: In Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members, and Sub-sections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up