“Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. I once gave a lady two and twenty receipts against melancholy; one was a bright fire; another, to remember all the pleasant things said to her; another, to keep a box of sugar-plums on the chimney-piece, and a kettle simmering on the hob. I thought this mere trifling at the moment, but have in after life discovered how true it is that these little pleasures often banish melancholy better than higher and more exalted objects; and that no means ought to be thought too trifling which can oppose it, either in ourselves or in others.”
SIDNEY SMITH
“We should not sadden the harmless mirth of others by suffering our own melancholy to be seen; and this species of exertion is like virtue, its own reward; for the good spirits which are at first simulated become at length real.”
THOMAS SCOTT
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