"Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion."
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"Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope."
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"Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off."
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"Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow."
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"Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter."
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"To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair."
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"Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing."
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"The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything."
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"Sorrow makes us very good or very bad."
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"God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains."
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"In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed."
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"The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been."
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"Sorrow is the great idealizer."
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"A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life."
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"Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows."
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"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]"
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"We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians."
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"They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future."
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"She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound."
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"The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it."
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