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Quotation from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
“Melancholy in this sense is the character of mortality”
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 1, Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subs. 5 (Melancholy in Disposition, improperly so called) (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638))
Burton distinguishes passing sadness, which no one escapes, from melancholy as a settled disease.
Citation: "Melancholy in this sense is the character of mortality" — Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 1, Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subs. 5 (Melancholy in Disposition, improperly so called) (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638)). (id the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q6)
Portrait: Robert Burton by Gilbert Jackson, Gilbert Jackson, Public domain.
