"There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow."
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"Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living."
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"There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow"
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"True sorrow is as rare as true love."
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"Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery."
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"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure."
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"sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it"
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"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
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"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."
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"The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass."
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"Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face?"
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"She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man."
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"When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived."
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"The busy bee has no time for sorrow."
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"Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched."
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"One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them."
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
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"Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow."
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"When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare"
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"We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness."
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