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To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should… — Thomas Gray
There is no comfort in change But also no learning in the Steady drone of peace. There will be no greater sorrow Than watching you… — Unknown Author
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. — Walter Raleigh
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow. — Samuel Johnson
In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. — Robert Burns
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite… — Unknown Author
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . .… — Ray Stannard Baker
There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow merely thankful for belief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with, and trust… — Phillips Brooks
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more. — Pearl S. Buck
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won. — Oliver Goldsmith
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders… — Oliver Goldsmith
There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them;… — Matthew Henry
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before… — Leonard Cohen
When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner. — Laozi
There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal. — Carolina Nairne
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. — Khalil Gibran
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is… — Khalil Gibran
Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. — John Ruskin
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. — Joan Baez
'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath… — James Russell Lowell
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow… — Henry David Thoreau

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