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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like… — Leigh Hunt
Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure. — Bonaventure
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy. — Beaumont Newhall
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne. — Jerome K. Jerome
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall… — William Jacob Holland
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world… — Henri Frederic Amiel
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,… — Thomas Jefferson
One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions… — James Madison
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless… — George Washington
It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and… — James Madison
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must… — Boethius
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating.… — Mati Unt
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out. — Virginia Heffernan
I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic… — Colin Farrell
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in… — Russell Brand
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable… — John Derbyshire
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will… — William James
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. — Edward Abbey
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid… — V.S. Naipaul
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. — Homer
I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least… — Hans Christian Andersen
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world. — Emile M. Cioran
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy? — Emile M. Cioran

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