Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing."
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Gloomy
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Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul."
Daniel Harvey Hill
Military Officer, Educator
"Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Gloomy calm of idle vacancy."
Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, Anthropologist
"I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks."
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"One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments."
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"The gloomy shade of death."
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"End is a gloomy word."
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"It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else."
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