"While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love."

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Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.

— Henry David Thoreau