Quote #8
Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.
More from John (dramatist) Ford
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- Philosophers dwell in the moon.
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- Flattery Is monstrous in a true friend.
- Fly hence, shadows, that do keep, Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
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- Tempt not the stars, young man, thou canst not play With the severity of fate.