"The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow."
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"My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake."
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"There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail."
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"It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow."
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"Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow."
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"Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining."
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"Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived."
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"He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. [He that lives not well one year sorrows seven years after.]"
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"She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters."
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"Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows."
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"Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow."
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"Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind."
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"Every bond is a bond to sorrow."
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"One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been."
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"Silence is sorrow's best food."
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"The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases."
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"I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away."
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"Sorrow is brief but joy is endless"
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"Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber."
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"Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!"
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