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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.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Though it rain daggers with their points downward.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
For I light my candle from their torches.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
The fear of death is worse than death.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
What can't be cured must be endured.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Conquer thyself. Till thou hast done that, thou art a slave; for it is almost as well to be in subjection to another's appetite as thine own.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Out of too much learning become mad.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
One religion is as true as another.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride,
Whil'st the poor Scholar foots it by their side.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)