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«Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter (Novelist) | About: Music | Keywords: gloomiest, gloomy, moonlight
«Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.»
«Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason /you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.»
«A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.»
«It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.»
«If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.»
«Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover.»
«I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation»
«Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.»
«I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.»

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