"pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection." — Ambrose Bierce

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• Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates… — Rabindranath Tagore
• Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly,… — Thomas Chalmers
• PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. — Ambrose Bierce
• Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice… — John of Damascus
• ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to… — Ambrose Bierce
• RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. — Ambrose Bierce
• Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. — William Wordsworth
• Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he… — Samuel Johnson
• Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant… — William Cowper
• The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out… — Gustave Flaubert
• The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light;… — Leo Tolstoy

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