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• Parting is such sweet sorrow

  William Shakespeare

  Sad Love, Sweet, Absence

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

  Austin O'Malley

  Heart, May, Cosmetics

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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Laughter, Wine

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Sadness

  Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”

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• 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 Powers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bread, Hours, Morrow

  'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' (1795-6) bk. 2, ch. 13 (translated by Carlyle)

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• Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Night, Shows

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.60

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• Men die but sorrow never dies.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Men, Dies

  "The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey". Poem by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, www.bartleby.com. 1902.

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• Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Grief, Wine

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Ears, Humans

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.14

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• We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Affliction, Fancy

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• Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams;
  And sorrow tracketh wrong,
  As echo follows song.

  Harriet Martineau

  Dream, Song, Echoes

  Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.345

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• Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Mean, Plans, Eternal

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• It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Angel, Home, Vanishing

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• In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

  Willis Gaylord Clark

  Voice, Mourning, May

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• I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Sea, Joy, Wave

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Mar 16, 2013

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• Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

  Sean O'Casey

  Jesus, Men, Community

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• Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

  Ben Jonson

  Cat, Care, Curiosity Killed The Cat

  'Every Man in His Humour' (1598) act 1, sc. 3

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• Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.

  Sophie Arnould

  Unhappy, Good Times

  Rulhière, "Épître à Monsieur de Cha", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 733-36, 1922.

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• Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Humble, Golden

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.291, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

  Ovid

  Good Day, One Day, Bears

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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

  Khalil Gibran

  Motivational, Broken Heart, Joy

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

  Francois de Malherbe

  Night, Woven, Delight

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• The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sentimental, Leisure, Busy

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.27

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• O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

  John Keats

  Heart, May, Lightness

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her

  Sara Teasdale

  Flames, Joy, Storm

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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