Ryan’s Reviews > The Anatomy of Melancholy > Status Update
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"Primum vivens, ultimum moriens, it lives first, and dies last in all creatures. Of a pyramidical form, and not much unlike to a pine-apple; a part worthy of admiration, that can yield such variety of affections, by whose motion it is dilated or contracted, to stir and command the humours in the body. As in sorrow, melancholy; in anger, choler; in joy, to send the blood outwardly; in sorrow, to call it in"
— Feb 08, 2017 09:44AM
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"Th'earth's full of maladies, and full the sea, Which set upon us both by night and day."
— Feb 06, 2017 02:40PM
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"Concerning myself, I can peradventure affirm with Marius in Sallust, 'that which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholising.'"
— Feb 05, 2017 05:56AM
