"If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened."
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"I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?"
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"As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief."
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"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."
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"Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand"
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"If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy."
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"Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes."
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"I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well."
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"Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it."
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"It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside of Cuba that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime."
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"The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind."
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"Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end."
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"For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done."
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"A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
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"A countenance more in sorrow than in anger."
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"Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow."
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"Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light."
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"Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!."
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"Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell."
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"Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it."
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