Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy, Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life?
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It is melancholy to reflect that Mankind has suffered more from ill judged philanthropy than [from] calculated malice. The road to Hell is no less harrowing for being paved with good intentions.
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Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
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Here rests his head, upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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There 's such a charm in melancholy.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away?
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a wellspent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy.
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
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Affection, like melancholy, magnifiestrifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscop
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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged
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I want to do drawings which touch people.. In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.
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Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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I cannot bear it! Said the pewter soldier. I have shed pewter <br/>tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and <br/>lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot <br/>bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from <br/>one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have <br/>had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant <br/>thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the <br/>drawers.
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Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief
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If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart
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'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
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Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy
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Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness
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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
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