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Put his shoulder to the wheel.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
"Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
A good conscience is a continual feast.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
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.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
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.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
I light my candle from their torches.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Christ himself was poor... And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,—some of them in hell.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)