Woe Quotes - Page 12

• The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Children, Disappointment, Tired

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.388, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Real, Dresses

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• But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Trying, Study, Lost

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

  Sophocles

  Sight, Darkness, Deeds

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.83, Sophocles

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• I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

  Steve Earle

  Home, Worry, Mountain

  Song: The Mountain, Album: The Mountain

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• It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Running, Burden

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.

  Henry Kirke White

  Christian, Sorrow, Christianity

  Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey (1823). “The remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's college, Cambridge: with an account of his life”, p.148

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• There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Perfect, Faithful

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• Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Nurse, Looks, Mercy

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Measure for Measure”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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• Be all of you subject one to another having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles, that you may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct

  Polycarp

  Names, Sobriety, May

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• I walked around for a while angry, in a bad mood. ... 'Woe is me.' I've gotten over that. It doesn't do any good.

  Peyton Manning

  Football, Woe Is Me, Bad Mood

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• We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

  Julian of Norwich

  Goodness, Goodness Of God

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Meaningful, Past, Reality

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• Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

  James F. Cooper

  Apathy, Fancy, Zeal

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• Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Typewriters, Office

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

  Alexander Pope

  Midnight, Bears, Misery

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.214

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• Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.

  Joseph Alleine

  Ignorance, Woe Unto, Hypocrisy

  Joseph Alleine (1824). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners”, p.170

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• I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.

  Franklin Pierce

  War, Blood, Devastation

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• Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Fighting, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator. Yet we know that it is not so. In reality the rocks are less enduring than man. Each man's personal self will still survive for weal or woe, when another catastrophe shall have utterly changed the surface of this planet, and the elements shall have melted with fervent heat, and the earth also and all things that are therein shall have been burnt up.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Reality, Men, Rocks

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• Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.

  John Fletcher

  Dream, Grief, Sadness

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Prophetess. Queen of Corinth. Tragedy of Bonduca. Knight of the Burning Pestle”, p.240

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• When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Risk

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.

  Herman Melville

  Hands, Delight, Higher

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.50

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• Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Nurse

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1260, 谷月社

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• If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Unity, Done

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