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"Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking."
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"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."
"Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?"
"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."
"Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage."
"Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul."
"My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!"
"Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here."
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"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."
"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."
"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."
"Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all."
"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."
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