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“Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.”

Feels Writing Said States Feelings Hands Particular Sorrow Inspired Occasions Fancy Pens Usual Oysters

Book:A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...

Source: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...

“We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.”

Thinking Sometimes Sorrow Fancy Affliction Discontent Piety Contrition

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occasion sorrow; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.”

Ifs Men World Heart Evil Loss This World Sorrow Occasions Fancy Goods Heaviness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

“Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.”

Thinking Facts Care Moral Opinion Honesty Sorrow Manage Burning Fancy Reports Diaries Exquisite Accuracy Loaded Evaluation

Author:E. B. White

“Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”

Source: Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

“The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

“Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.”

Life Stills Life Is Joy Half Sorrow Fancy True Life

Book:Legends and lyrics: a book of verses

Source: Legends and lyrics: a book of verses

“Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, That gave this gentle name.”

Looks Heart Different Names Half Flower Sorrow Shapes Twenties Tales Ease Gentle Fancy Pansies

Book:The poetical works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: complete in one volume

Source: The poetical works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: complete in one volume

“The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.”

Heart Fall Fields Flower Sorrow Spring Winter Tongue Fancy Yield Honey Fades Reckoning Wanton

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works