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

Charles Dickens
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Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Arthur Wellesley
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We're all a little melancholy about moving from here. We wanted to do something to say goodbye, and the bell is such a part of our heritage.

Jan Kaiser
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It's going to be happy but melancholy at the same time. I've dealt with a lot of things, but having the guys' support has always meant so much to me. They're like my brothers.

Ricky Morgan
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Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.

Thomas C. Haliburton
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We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Joseph Howe
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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Francois Fenelon
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Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, / And moon-struck madness.

John Milton
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Arnold Bennett
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

George Santayana
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Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

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

Jonathan Coe
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If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.

Robert Burton
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The opening ceremony is all about passion, energy, the Italy of the future. It will be a bit aggressive. The closing ceremony will have a carnival theme - with a melancholy air because it's the end of the Games.

Marco Balich
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I therefore became very melancholy and highly troubled. No Scripture could comfort me, though I was quite well versed in it.

Jacob Boehme
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