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“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
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“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
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“A person with a melancholy temperament had been fated with both an awful burden and what Byron called “a fearful gift.” The burden was a sadness and despair that could tip into a state of disease. But the gift was a capacity for depth, wisdom—even genius. In”
― Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
― Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
“A creeping fear of madness often accompanies depression. Sufferers wonder if their black moods will ever lift, or if their feelings of alienation from the healthy world will deepen and widen. “These fears are at least fifty percent of what it is to be melancholy,”
― Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
― Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
“Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
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