All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy. - Robert Burton

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Out of too much learning become mad.

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Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.

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Though they [philosophers] write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books.

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