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"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
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"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."
"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?"
"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."
"My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!"
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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."
"I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource."
"I do think the barsThat kept my spirit in are burst - that IAm sailing with thee through the dizzy sky!How beautiful thou art!"
"To SorrowI bade good morrow,And thought to leave her far away behind;But cheerly, cheerly,She loves me dearly;She is so constant to me, and so kind."
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