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William Blake Poet, Painter
Woe

"If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Woe

"O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Woe

"If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Woe

"Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy."

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Fernando Pessoa Poet, Writer
Woe

"There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Woe

"Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead."

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