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Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, read more
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.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down read more
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.
Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
