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By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; b

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. – Joseph Collins

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The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. – Joseph Collins

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Melancholic madness strapped to your chest and you have no way of releasing the fear. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

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Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Perhaps apathy is a wave of emotions too afraid to burst out of the darkness into the bright light of day. – Terri Guillemets

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And I am glad to see, that you have also put to flight the gloomy thoughts which used to haunt you. I like to see people cheerful and happy. What is the use of giving way to sadness in this beautiful world? – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, A Romance, “The Evening and the Morning St

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