Thursday, December 31, 2015

 

Melancholy

Walter Savage Landor, letter to Rose Paynter (June 5, 1840):
Take my word for it, if we fondle and pamper our griefs, they grow up to an unwieldy size and become unmanageable. Melancholy, which at first was only the ornament of a verse, becomes at last a habit and a necessity.



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