"We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart."
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""There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised.""
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"To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe."
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"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in."
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"I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow."
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"There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make."
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"You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you."
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"A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage."
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"For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness."
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"Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow."
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"Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs."
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"If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!"
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"... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us."
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"So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it."
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"Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear."
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"...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow."
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"sorrow is easier than guilt."
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"Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be."
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"True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it."
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"Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets."
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