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"Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking."
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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."
"Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage."
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"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."
"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
"I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another."
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