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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.
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    Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
          Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2.
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    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.
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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.
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    Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop. 1
          Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2.
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    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.
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    Who cannot give good counsel? ’T is cheap, it costs them nothing.
          Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
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    Many things happen between the cup and the lip. 3
          Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
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    What can’t be cured must be endured.
          Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
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    Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.
          Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
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    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]
 

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