The mind most effectually works upon the body, producing by his passions and perturbations miraculous alterations, as melancholy, despair, cruel diseases, and sometimes death itself...They that live in fear are never free, resolute, secure, never merry, but in continual pain...It causeth oftimes sudden madness.

-Robert Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
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A Room of One's Own
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Treatise On the Gods
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Table Talk
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On Liberty
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Virginibus Puerisque
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Religio Medici
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This Is New York
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Something Happened Yesterday
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