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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘<strong>The</strong> Anatomy <strong>of</strong> Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 3, sect. 2, member 1, subsect. 2.<br />

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Anatomy <strong>of</strong> Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 3, sect. 2, member 1, subsect. 2<br />

To these crocodile’s tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance, pale<br />

colour, leanness.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Anatomy <strong>of</strong> Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 3, sect. 2, member 2, subsect. 4<br />

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Anatomy <strong>of</strong> Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 3, sect. 2, member 2, subsect. 4<br />

England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy a paradise for horses, hell for<br />

women, as the diverb goes.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Anatomy <strong>of</strong> Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 3, sect. 3, member 1, subsect. 2<br />

One religion is as true as another.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Anatomy <strong>of</strong> Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 3, sect. 4, member 2, subsect. 1<br />

Be not solitary, be not idle.<br />

Final words, in ‘<strong>The</strong> Anatomy <strong>of</strong> Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 3, sect. 4, member 2, subsect. 6<br />

2.264 Hermann Busenbaum 1600-68<br />

Cum finis est licitus, etiam media sunt licita.<br />

<strong>The</strong> end justifies the means.<br />

‘Medulla <strong>The</strong>ologiae Moralis’ (1650)<br />

2.265 Comte de Bussy-Rabutin 1618-1693<br />

L’amour vient de l’aveuglement,<br />

L’amitiè de la connaissance.<br />

Love comes from blindness,<br />

Friendship from knowledge.<br />

‘Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d’Amour’ (1665) pt. 1<br />

L’absence est á l’amour ce qu’est au feu le vent;<br />

Il èteint le petit, il allume le grand.<br />

Absence is to love what wind is to fire;<br />

It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.<br />

‘Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d’Amour’ (1665) pt. 2.<br />

Comme vous savez, Dieu est d’ordinaire pour les gros escadrons contre les petits.<br />

As you know, God is usually on the side <strong>of</strong> the big squadrons against the small.<br />

Letter to the Comte de Limoges, 18 October 1677, in ‘Lettres de...Comte de Bussy’ (1697) vol. 4.<br />

2.266 Joseph Butler 1692-1752<br />

It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not<br />

so much as a subject <strong>of</strong> inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Analogy <strong>of</strong> Religion’ (1736) ‘Advertisement’

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