"Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers."
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"Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved."
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"The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience."
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"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life"
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"Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base."
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"How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self."
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"O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?"
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"Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave."
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"Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares."
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"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason."
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"All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread."
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"Sing away sorrow, cast away care."
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"Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin."
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"Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal."
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"If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows."
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"Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears."
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"The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me."
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"Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots."
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"Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe."
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"But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound."
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