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"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
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"Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her."
"Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here."
"Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?"
"Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage."
"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
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"Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock."
"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."
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