"Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows."
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"In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim"
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"I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary."
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"If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity."
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"To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone."
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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"Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place."
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"every heart has its graveyard."
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"My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world."
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"Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom."
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"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache."
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"And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow."
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"But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed."
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"Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does."
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"No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude."
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"Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion."
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"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."
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"Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds."
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"We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year."
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"With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed."
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