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• Idleness is an appendix to nobility. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect.
  2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 6...
• What can't be cured must be endured. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect.
  2, Memb. 3...
• Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1...
• A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 6...
• Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 2...
• Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 2...
• All places are distant from heaven alike. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect.
  2, Memb. 4...
• Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be held by, the other not.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 3...
• Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 3...