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INSANITY
INSANITY

Hence, bashful cunning!
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
Tempest. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 81.


We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the
sun,
And bleat the one at the other; what we ohang'd
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd
That any did.
Winter's Tale. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 67.


I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush, and tyranny
Tremble at patience.
Winter's Tale. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 31.
 O, white innocence,
That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide
Thine awful and serenest countenance
Prom those who know thee not!
Shelley—The Cenci. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 24.

INSANITY
 
Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto II. L. 565.
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 | text = <poem>Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'Tis the majority
In this, as all, prevails
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,—you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.
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 | text = <poem>For those whom God to ruin has designed
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
Dryden—Fables. The Hind and the Panther.
Pt. III. L. 2,387.
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 There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!
Dryden—Spanish Friar. Act II. St. 1.
 


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 | text = <poem>The alleged power to charm down insanity, or
ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
Emerson—Essays. Conduct of Life. Of Behaviour.


At daemon, homini quum struit illiquid malum,
Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.
But the devil when he purports any evil
against man, first perverts his mind.
Euripides. Fragment 25. Barnes Ed. Attributed to Athenagorus. Also ed. pub.
at Padua, 1743-53. Vol. X. P. 268. The
Translator, P. Cabmbu, gives the Italian
as: Quondo vogliono gli Dei far perire alcuno, gli tiglie la mente.
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But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins
by blinding the eyes of his understanding.
Jambs Fraser—Short Hist, of the Hindostan
Emperors of the Moghol Race. (1742) P. 57.
See also story of the Christian Broker. Arabian Nights. Lane's trans. Ed. 1859. Vol.
I. P. 307.
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Halliwell—Archaic Diet. Vol. II. Art.
"March Hare." Heywood—Proverbs. Pi.
II. Ch. V. Skelton—ReplycacUm Agaynst
Certayne Yong Scoters, etc. L. 35.
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 | text = <poem>Doceo insanire omnes.
I teach that all men are mad.
Horace—Satires. II. 3. 81.
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Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod
Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same
Horace—Satires. II. 3. 120.


Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
Horace—Satires. II. 3. 158.
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 | text = major tandem parcas, insane, minori.
Oh! thou who art greatly mad, deign to spare
me who am less mad.
Horace—Satires. II. 3. 326.


 demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,
Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.
Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps,
that you may please children and be made the
subject of declamation.
Juvenal—Satires. X. 166.


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| text = <poem>O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? 

Frig chain some furious mnHman breaks; He comes—I see his glaring eyes; Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes. Help! Help! He's gone!—O fearful woe, Such screams to hear, such sights to see! My brain, my brain,—I know, I know I am not mad but soon shall be. Matthew Gregory Lewis ("Monk Lewis