"A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning."
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"Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery."
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"Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining."
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"Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye."
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"Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others."
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"Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?"
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"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief."
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"My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!"
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"Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort."
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"for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)"
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"No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?"
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"Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold on me; for my particular grief Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself."
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"When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave."
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"So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love."
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"That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel."
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"This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt."
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"In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness."
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"Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind."
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"I saw sorrow turning into clarity."
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"Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you."
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