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 iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5.

Though it rain daggers with their points downward.

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.

Going as if he trod upon eggs.

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.

I light my candle from their torches.

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 5, Subsect. 1.

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.

The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.[192:2]