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The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
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Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.
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"Let me not live," said Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."
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[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.
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Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.
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[Desire is] a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin [Saint Augustine], still going round as in a ring.
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Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better.
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A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
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Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.
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Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
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Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.
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They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.
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That which Pythagoras said to his scholars of old, may be forever applied to melancholy men, A fabis abstinete, eat no beans.
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Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.
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What, if a dear year come or dearth, or some loss? And 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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The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
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Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.
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As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.
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We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.
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[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.
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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.
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From this it is clear how much the pen is worse than the sword.
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A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.
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Though they [philosophers] write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books.
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True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
Willard Libby
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Born:
February 8, 1577
Died:
January 25, 1640
(aged 62)
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