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Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy
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Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness
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To enlarge and illustrate this - is to set a candle in the sun.
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I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself
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Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven
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I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy.
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That which is a law today is none tomorrow
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Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing
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We can say nothing but what hath been said
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