"Rapture's self is three parts sorrow."
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"There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection."
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"Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort."
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"It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow."
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"Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse."
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"The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes."
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"Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat."
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"A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame."
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"Hatred and sorrow are power. They are yours to control. All you have to do is turn them into strength, and use that strength to move forward."
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"Small sorrows speak great ones are silent."
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"My sorrow is my castle."
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"The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed."
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"If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly."
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"All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow."
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"Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow"
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"Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow."
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"It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist."
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"Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today."
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"Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger."
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"Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers."
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