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Quotation from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
“puts study, contemplation, and continual meditation, as an especial cause of madness”
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 1, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subs. 15 (Love of Learning, or overmuch study) (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638))
The opening of the digression on the misery of scholars, citing the physician Jean Fernel.
Citation: "puts study, contemplation, and continual meditation, as an especial cause of madness" — Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 1, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subs. 15 (Love of Learning, or overmuch study) (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638)). (id the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q8)
Portrait: Robert Burton by Gilbert Jackson, Gilbert Jackson, Public domain.
