Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 10.

[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.[188:1]

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 10.

[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 11.

[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12.

Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12.

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.