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• Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• He is of a very melancholy disposition. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Much Ado about Nothing -- Act i, Sc.
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• A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act ii, Sc. 4...
• O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act iii, Sc. 1...
• Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste. -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- Thanatopsi
• It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simple
  extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness....
• Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time
  If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast....
• Action is eloquence. -- William Shakespeare
• Omittance is no quittance. -- William Shakespeare