"Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows."
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"My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh."
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"A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images."
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"Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson."
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"I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow."
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"Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth."
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"The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings."
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"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."
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"The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own."
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"Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded."
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"a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance."
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"The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow."
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"Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears."
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"I would say my mind is always working - no matter where I am I continue to see opportunities all around me. My only sorrow is that I can't possibly explore them all!"
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"Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels."
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"There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth."
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""Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness."
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"On sorrow floats laughter."
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"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."
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"But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love."
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