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    It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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    It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

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    It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

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    I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

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    it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

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    Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.

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    Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

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    It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

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    Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

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    Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

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    Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

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    Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

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    Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

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    Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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    Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

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    Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

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    Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

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    Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

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    Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

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    Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

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    Naught so sweet as melancholy.

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    Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

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    Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

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    Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

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    Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

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    Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

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    The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

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    Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

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    Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

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    The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

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    The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

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    The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

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    The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

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    The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

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    There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

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    There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

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    The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

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    There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

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    There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

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    There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

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    There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

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    There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

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    This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

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    The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

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    To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

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    When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

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    To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.

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    The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

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    What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

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    You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.