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ROBERT BURTON. 1576-1640.
Naught so sweet as melancholy.[185-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy._[185-3] _The Author's Abstract._
I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.[185-4]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.[185-5]
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We can say nothing but what hath been said.[185-6] Our poets steal from Homer. . . . Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
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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.[185-7]
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It is most true, _stylus virum arguit_,--our style bewrays us.[186-1]
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I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.[186-2]
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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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Like the watermen that row one way and look another.[186-3]
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Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.[186-4]
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Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.[186-5]
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Rob Peter, and pay Paul.[186-6]
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Penny wise, pound foolish.
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Women wear the breeches.
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Like Æsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.[186-7]
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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.
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Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.[186-8]
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Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i . Sect. 1, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5._
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in
## particular, all his life long.[187-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i . Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, _ministerio dæmonum_, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i . Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3._
Can build castles in the air.[187-2]
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