Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].
Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the read more
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some read more
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be read more
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage read more
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be read more
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
