"My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had."
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"Improve every opportunity to be melancholy."
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"Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones."
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"Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it."
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"Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself."
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"Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better."
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"Diabetes is caused by melancholy."
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"A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault."
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"Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything."
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"So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!"
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"Let me be boiled to death with melancholy."
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"I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise."
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"Melancholy is the happiness of being sad."
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"Employment and hardships prevent melancholy."
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"Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject."
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"In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy."
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"I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy"
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"The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?"
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"Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid."
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"It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood."
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