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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."
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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."
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"I'm so involved in melancholy."
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"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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"Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?"
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"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."
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"Diabetes is caused by melancholy."
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"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet... I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me."
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"In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking."
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"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness."
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"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
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"When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!"
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"If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it may be the means-it may put me on my guard-at least, it may be something to live for."
Hope

"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley."
Ethics

"That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit."
Society

"They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town."
Philosophy

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
Literature

"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
Man

"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
Virtue

"My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be..."
Romance

"There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions."
Mind
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