Inclined to reflect. The thinking of the melancholy
easily turns into reflection. The thoughts of the melancholy are
far-reaching. She dwells with pleasure upon the past and is preoccupied
by occurrences of the long ago; she is penetrating; if not satisfied
with the superficial, searches for the cause and correlation of things;
seeks the laws which affect human life, the principles according to
which man should act. Her thoughts are of a wide range; she looks ahead
into the future; ascends to the eternal. When a thing ignites the
passion within a Melancholy her soul is fixed on it yet she hardly
permits her fierce excitement to be noticed outwardly. The undisciplined
melancholy is easily given to brooding and to day-dreaming.
(Unfortunately this is true - when something excites me oftentimes no
one would ever know.)
Love of retirement. The melancholy does not feel at home among a crowd for any length of time; she loves silence and solitude. Being inclined to introspection she secludes herself from the crowds, forgets her environment, and makes poor use of her senses - eyes, ears, etc. In company she is often distracted, because she is absorbed by her own thoughts.
Love of retirement. The melancholy does not feel at home among a crowd for any length of time; she loves silence and solitude. Being inclined to introspection she secludes herself from the crowds, forgets her environment, and makes poor use of her senses - eyes, ears, etc. In company she is often distracted, because she is absorbed by her own thoughts.
Inclined to be passive. The melancholy is a passive
temperament. The person possessing such a temperament, therefore, has
not the vivacious, quick, progressive, active propensity, of the
choleric or sanguine, but is slow, pensive, reflective. It is difficult
to move her to quick action, since she has a marked inclination to
passivity and inactivity.
The melancholy is irresolute. On account of too many
considerations and too much fear of difficulties and of the possibility
that her plans or works may fail, the melancholy can hardly reach a
decision. She is inclined to defer her decision. What she could do today
she postpones for tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or even for the
next week. She is never finished. The melancholy is a person of missed
opportunities. While she sees that others have crossed the creek long
ago, she still deliberates whether she too should and can jump over it.
Because the melancholy discovers many ways by her reflection and has
difficulties in deciding which one to take, she easily gives way to
others, and does not stubbornly insist on her own opinion.