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'Tis the beginning of hell in this life, and a passion not to be excused. Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. - [Envy] Titles, indeed, may be purchased; but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain valid. - [Titles] To enlarge or illustrate this power of the effects of love is to set a candle in the sun. - [Love] To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature. "Pleased with each other's lot, our own we hate." - [Covetousness] Where God bath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. - [Devil] Wit without an employment is a disease. - [Wit] Wit without employment is a disease. - [Wit] Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed. [Lat., Mira cano; sol occubuit; Nox nulla secuta est.] - quoting Giraldus Gambrensis found in Camden "Epigrammes" [Wonder] Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase. - [Riches] All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so damn'd as melancholy. - Abstract to Anatomy of Melancholy [Melancholy] All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy. - Abstract to Anatomy of Melancholy [Melancholy] Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.] - Anatomy of Melancholy, a proverb quoted by him in the introduction [Experience : Proverbs] Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing. - quoted by Anatomy of Melancholy [Wooing] It is believable because unbelievable. [Lat., Ideo crededum quod incredibile.] - Anatomy of Melancholy, quoting Tertullian [Belief] It is most true, stylus virum arguit, our style bewrays us. - Anatomy of Melancholy [Style] The fear of death is worse than death. [Lat., Timor mortis morte pejor.] - Anatomy of Melancholy [Death] Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. - Anatomy of Melancholy [Tobacco] One religion is as true as another. - Anatomy of Melancholy (bk. III, sec. IV, memb. 2, subsec, 1) [Religion] The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. - Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 6, p. 40) [Eyes] The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side. [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores, Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.] - Anatomy of Melancholy (I, 2, 3, 15) [Medicine] When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done. - Anatomy of Melancholy (III, 4, 2) [Rome] [Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sc. 2, memb. 3, subsect. 10) [Disease] No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sc. II, memb. 2, subsect. 3) [Proverbs] See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. 2, memb. 4, subsec. 7) [Nature] Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. I, memb. II, subsec. V) [Murder] Displaying page 3 of 6 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6
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