John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Robert Burton. (1577–1640) (continued) |
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| Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. |
| Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1. |
| 2150 |
| Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man. |
| Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2. |
| 2151 |
| Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes’ bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born]. |
| Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2. |
| 2152 |
| 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. |
| 2153 |
| Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop. 1 |
| Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2. |
| 2154 |
| Christ himself was poor…. And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor. 2 |
| Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3. |
| 2155 |
| Who cannot give good counsel? ’T is cheap, it costs them nothing. |
| Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3. |
| 2156 |
| Many things happen between the cup and the lip. 3 |
| Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3. |
| 2157 |
| What can’t be cured must be endured. |
| Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3. |
| 2158 |
| Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not. |
| Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3. |
| 2159 |
| All places are distant from heaven alike. |
| Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 4. |
| Note 1. Set a beggar on horseback, and he ’ll outride the Devil.—Bohn: Foreign Proverbs (German). [back] |
| Note 2. See Wotton, Quotation 3. [back] |
| Note 3. There is many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip.—Hazlitt: English Proverbs. Though men determine, the gods doo dispose; and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.—Greene: Perimedes the Blacksmith (1588). [back] |