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"Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow." »Frances Hodgson Burnett
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"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." »Abraham Lincoln
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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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"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations." »Charles Dickens, Bleak House
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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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"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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"It is impossible that a fish doesn’t carry any smell of the sea and a real love, of the melancholy!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy." »James Russell Lowell
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"Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis." »Abraham Myerson
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