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• Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.

  Edmund Spenser

  Good Day, Night, Long

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser (1874). “The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser”, p.598

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• Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Keys, Joy

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

  James Joyce

  Pain, Flames, Fire

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

  John Donne

  Children, Yesterday, Tomorrow

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Bears, Calamity

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

  Samuel Beckett

  Reality, Appreciate, Effort

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”

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• The ethical decision is always the fearsome decision. When something matters enough that we are afraid of the consequences - afraid that even the honorable choice could result in harm or loss or sorrow - that's when ethics are involved.

  Henry W. Bloch

  Loss, Choices, Decision

  "Stand for the Best: What I Learned after Leaving My Job as CEO". Book by Thomas M. Bloch, 2010.

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• The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

  Thomas Malory

  Love Is, Long, Joy

  'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 10, ch. 56

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• There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Sweet, Regret, Grief

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus”, p.14

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• A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Heart, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.81

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• At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

  Roger Zelazny

  Spring, Clock, Ends

  Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press

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• Tears are the body's raindrops of emotion.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Tears, Raindrops, Body

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• Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Disappointment, Grief, Joy

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• Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

  Archilochus

  Past, Order, Years

  Archilochos, “To His Soul”

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• My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to give a whole spectrum of experiences to my readers. Not just fear or terror or revulsion, but excitement, laughter, pain, sorrow, desire, etc.

  Richard Laymon

  Laughter, Pain, Book

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• And then the dear Lord will take us to the new earth, surrounded by the new Heaven, and the holy New Jerusalem will come down from God out of Heaven. Then we will have an end of pain and sorrow and crying and death. All these, thank God, will be forever done! And then God Himself will wipe away our tears.

  John R. Rice

  Pain, Dear Lord, Forever

  John R. Rice (1941). “Tears in Heaven”, p.24, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Great Knowledge

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

  Demonax

  Pain, Lust, Delight

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• The solo is a nuanced distillation of sorrow.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Solo, Distillation

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• True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Sin, Break

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.332

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• Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

  Tryon Edwards

  Blessing, Evil, Giving

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1517, Ravenio Books

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• Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Writing, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: including the series edited with prefaces, biographical and critical”, p.78

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• The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

  Bruce Catton

  Memories, War, People

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• There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will never forget his face, his smile, his sorrow. He is one of the millions robbed of hope and dignity by charlatans discussed in this book. Wherever and whoever he is, I apologize to him for not having been able to protect him from such an experience. I humbly dedicate this book to him and to the many others who have suffered because the rest of us began caring too late.

  James Randi

  Book, Caring, Boys

  James Randi (1987). “The Faith Healers”

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• The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won admirers in America as they studied with us or guided us with their counsel. I personally recall the wisdom and composure of Foreign Minister Lee, with whom I met in Washington just a few short months ago. To the families and countrymen of all those who were lost, America expresses its deep sorrow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Korea, Usa, America

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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