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Out of too much learning become mad. (Robert Burton)
See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. View quote
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Make a virtue of necessity. View quote
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The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience. View quote
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Like the watermen that row one way and look another. View quote
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Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel. View quote
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Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop. View quote
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[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels." View quote
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Christ himself was poor... And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor. View quote
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I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones. View quote
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[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring. (Robert Burton)
They do not live but linger. View quote
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Can build castles in the air. View quote
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I light my candle from their torches. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings. View quote
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All places are distant from heaven alike. View quote
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Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer. View quote
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It is most true, stylus virum arguit,-our style bewrays us. (Robert Burton)
Though they [philosophers] write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books. View quote
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And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard. View quote
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He is only fantastical that is not in fashion. View quote
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Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty. View quote
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