"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."
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"Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies."
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"Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy."
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"So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy."
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"... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries."
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"While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love."
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"Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy."
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"The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect."
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"For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work."
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"I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art."
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"it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle."
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"There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still."
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"Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper."
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