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Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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One of the richest, most inexhaustible books in the English language,The Anatomy of Melancholy is an elaborately systematized medical treatise dealing with various morbid mental states — their causes, symptoms, and cures — as well as a compendium of memorable utterances on the human condition in general, compiled from classical, scholastic, and contemporary sources.
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    ear cometh like sudden desolation, and destruction like a whirlwind, affliction and anguish,"
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      It is not curiosity alone, but those other crying sins of ours, which pull these several plagues and miseries upon our heads
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        "He must eat his meat in sorrow,"
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