Book 3, Chapter 3: Which on the Whole Is Found Very Consoling

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌​‌​​​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​⁠The separation of lovers, even with an immediate prospect of union, involves a sentiment of deep melancholy. The reaction of our solitary emotions, after a social impulse of such peculiar excitement, very much disheartens and depresses us. Mutual passion is complete sympathy. Under such an influence there is no feeling so strong, no fancy so delicate, that it is not instantly responded to. Our hea