"When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes."
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"Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe."
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"It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers."
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"I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe."
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"Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes."
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"Woe to the man who offends a small child!"
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"Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!"
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"Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them."
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"He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!"
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"Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on."
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"Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment."
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"He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe."
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"Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast."
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"Long exercised in woes."
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"The market alone can't solve our health-care woes."
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"Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?"
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"How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!"
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"Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel."
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"But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone."
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"Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day."
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