"Too young for woe, though not for tears."
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"Joy and woe are woven fine."
"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."
"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."
"Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?"
"Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun."
"So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute."
"All love's pleasure shall not match its woe."
"These times of woe afford no time to woo."
"Life protracted is protracted 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."
"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."
"Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years."
"and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max."
"With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!"
"The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick."
"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."
"Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead."
"The cholerick man never wants woe."
"Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed."