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| 'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself | | William Shakespeare | |
| And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow. (Luke 22:45) | | Bible | |
| But Life will suit Itself to Sorrow's most detested fruit, Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste | | Lord Byron | |
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| Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. | | William Shakespeare | |
| Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. | | Victor Hugo | |
| He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
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| If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. | | Confucius | |
| If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. | | Samuel Butler | |
| Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not! | | William Blake | |
| Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night | | William Shakespeare | |
| Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. | | Victor Hugo | |
| Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. | | Bible | |
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| Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. | | Samuel Johnson | |
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