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"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness."
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"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
"Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here."
"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."
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"Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history."
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