"I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop."
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"Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again."
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"Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest."
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"I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow."
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"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow."
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"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved."
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"For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled."
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"The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow."
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"Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow."
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"Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying."
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"To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound."
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"I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow."
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"Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter."
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"Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow."
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"And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born."
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"Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude."
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"Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow / No tomorrow, no tomorrow."
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"Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached."
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"If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you."
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"Joyously participate in the sorrows of others."
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