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"Diabetes is caused by melancholy."
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"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
"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."
"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
"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."
"For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad."
"Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage."
"Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?"
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"Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit."
"I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power."
"Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding."
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