"Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly."
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"Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts."
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"Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes."
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"The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you."
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"Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize."
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"Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow."
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"Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish."
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"The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow."
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"Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your despairs, your sorrows. Take a journey into that, that is all you have."
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"Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow."
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"Great sorrows cannot speak."
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"Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m"
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"Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy."
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"And her joy was nearly like sorrow."
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"You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk."
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"Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it."
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"Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal."
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"It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing."
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"There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation."
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"It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing."
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