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Put his shoulder to the wheel.
Topic: Action
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sect. I, memb. 2)
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Topic: Ambition
Source: None
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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."
Topic: Beggary
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, mem. 4, subsect. 6)
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Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.
[Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil.]
Topic: Beggary
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. III, memb. 2)
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Birds of a feather will gather together.
Topic: Birds
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, memb. 1, subsect. 2)
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Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
Topic: Boating
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Topic: Books and Reading
Source: None
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Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . .
he had two distinct persons in him.
Topic: Character
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio
doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call
changelings.
Topic: Childhood
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sect. II, memb. 1, subsect. 3)
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Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Topic: Childhood
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. II, memb. 6, subsect. 5)
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He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
Topic: Choice
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5), quoted
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Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
Topic: Churches
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. 1, subsec. 1)
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They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
Topic: Conscience
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. IV, memb. 2, subsect. 3)
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'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.
Topic: Contention
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sc. 3, mem. 7)
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Topic: Contention
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 195)
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Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
Topic: Cookery
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsec. 2)
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If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
Topic: Deceit
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. 1, subsect. 2)
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Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
Topic: Devil
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, memb. III)
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The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
Topic: Devil
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. I, subsect. III)
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[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.
Topic: Disease
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sc. 2, memb. 3, subsect. 10)
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Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
Topic: Education
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, mem. I, 1)
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England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a
paradise for horses, hell for women.
Topic: England
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 1, subsect. 2)
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Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Topic: Example
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 2)
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Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
Topic: Experience
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy, a proverb quoted by him in the introduction
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The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves
two, all the world else is blinde.
Topic: Eyes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 6, p. 40)
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As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
Topic: Faces
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsec. I)
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He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
Topic: Fashion
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 3)
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Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
Topic: Fate
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. II, memb. 3)
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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.
Topic: Festivities
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 2)
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All places are distant from heaven alike.
Topic: Heaven
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. III, Memb. 4)
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Topic: Help
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 195)
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For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Topic: Idleness
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 6)
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time,
which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but
which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction
for the life of man.
Topic: Idleness
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 6)
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For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world
knows.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. 1, subsect. 2)
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Build castles in the air.
Topic: Imagination
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 1, subsect. 3)
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Topic: Imagination
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 1, subsect. 3)
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
Topic: Kindness
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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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.
Topic: Law
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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Out of too much learning become mad.
Topic: Learning
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. 4, memb. 1, subsec. 2)
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For I light my candle from their torches.
Topic: Light
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. II, memb. 5, subsec. 1)
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Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.
Topic: Matrimony
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. II, mem. 5, subs. 5)
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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.]
Topic: Medicine
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (I, 2, 3, 15)
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Go then merrily to Heaven.
Topic: Merriment
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. 3, memb. 1)
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Misers
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 12)
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A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.
Topic: Misers
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 13)
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Penny wise, pound foolish.
Topic: Money
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?
Topic: Moon
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. III, mem. 7)
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Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
Topic: Murder
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. I, memb. II, subsec. V)
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