"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy" — Francis Beaumont

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my face

Source: Prospice (1864)

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend

Source: The New England Tragedies, John Endicott (1868)

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Source: Walden (1854)

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