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"As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?""
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Christ himself was poor. . . . And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who cannot give good counsel? 'T is cheap, it costs them nothing."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Many things happen between the cup and the lip."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"What can't be cured must be endured."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be held by, the other not."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"All places are distant from heaven alike."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.""
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 6.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
""Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play.""
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Birds of a feather will gather together."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He is only fantastical that is not in fashion."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels.""
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Though it rain daggers with their points downward."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Going as if he trod upon eggs."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I light my candle from their torches."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 5, Subsect. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Make a virtue of necessity."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Out of too much learning become mad."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"One religion is as true as another."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"They have cheveril consciences that will stretch."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain