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“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.”

Looks Two Real Faces Three Evil Wall Reflection Fancy Visible Melancholy Imaginary Pencils Real Ones

Book:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

“There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.”

Heart Reflection Arise Melancholy Gravity Tenderness Contractions

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or have not judgment, penetration or taste to perform the task.”

Knows Children Parent Taste Directors Judgment Reflection Tasks Management Melancholy Sole Penetration

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.”

Knows Men Pain Failure Sorrow Reflection Weak Senses Melancholy

Book:The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

“It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience.”

Should Littles Government Lines Liberty Too Much Danger Reflection Extremes Defined Melancholy Divides Exposed Too Much Power

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.”

People Believe Reality Would Be Able Easy Failing Tree Reflection Photograph Appearance Foolish Confused Melancholy Automobile

Author:Duane Michals

“The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.”

Humans Doe Whole Mankind Reflection Harm Melancholy Benevolence

Author:Walter Bagehot

“One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.”

Way Mind May Energy Worry Fate Influence Ought Waste Reflection Exciting Constitution Firm Melancholy Negativity Unnecessary Tranquility

Author:George Hackenschmidt