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• He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Learning, Heart

  Homer (2008). “The Odyssey: Easyread Large Edition”, p.146, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  Samuel Daniel

  Grief, Light, Silence

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.236

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• No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Children, Artist

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

  John Keats

  Men, Age, This Generation

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)

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• By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

  Richard Savage

  Soul, Action, Stealing

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• Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

  Solomon

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fall

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.

  Anne Askew

  God, Adversity, Water

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• woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see

  William Shakespeare

  Woe Is Me, Hamlet And Ophelia, Horatio

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• I was not always a man of woe.

  Walter Scott

  Men

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.19

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• Long exercised in woes.

  Homer

  Long

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.314

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• Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

  William Shakespeare

  Traitor, Cases, Treason

  1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.4, l.85-7.

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• And death makes equal the high and low.

  John Heywood

  Death, Lows, Equal

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

  Anne Bronte

  Tired, Heart, Eye

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.169, The Floating Press

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• The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

  Thomas Huxley

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Faith, Wisdom, Believe

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Poison, Synthesis, Wonder

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Pouring, Spirit

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.

  Philip Sidney

  Peace, Sleep, Insomnia

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 39

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• Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead.
  Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

  Raymond Chandler

  Death, Dying, Littles

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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• Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Long, Pleasure, Source

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Oberon, II, 52, 1922.

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• Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Equality, And Love, Generations

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• Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Obedience, Claims, Refuse

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.228, Lulu.com

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• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Birthday, Time

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

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• Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Knowing, People

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