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• Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

  Janet Morris

  Errors, Risk, Survival

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• All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn to gems and wrongs repent to diadems Even thy deaths shall live and new dress the soul that once they slew.

  Richard Crashaw

  Pain, Grieving, Shining

  Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.72

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• Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.

  Lord Byron

  Fashion, Clothes, Balls

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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• Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, God, Religious

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1472, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee...
  That ever felt another's woe.

  Homer

  Sympathy, Grateful, Tears

  Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.379, Library of Alexandria

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• The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Causes

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• Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Chance, Reason

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• Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

  Robert Southey

  Mother, Pain, Night

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.322

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• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Death, Knowledge, Science

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1913). “Our Eternity”

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• I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mother, Hurt, Brother

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• Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission are acts of love [because] those who proclaim the Gospel participate in the charity of Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Love Is, Redemption, Charity

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• If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Greed, Want

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• I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

  William Blake

  Running, Wall, Men

  William Blake (2010). “Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith”, p.144, Random House

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• When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Misery, Lear

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The plays of William Shakespeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens: with a series of engravings, from original designs of Henry Fuseli, and a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators; a history of the stage, a life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.419

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• Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Comfort, Done, Sun

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.8, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Woe to the man who offends a small child!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Men, Small Child

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.548, Bantam Classics

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• Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay

  Suzanne Collins

  Rays, Forget, Trouble

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.312, Scholastic Inc.

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• Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

  James M. Barrie

  Adventure, Care, Accepted

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.40, 谷月社

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• Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Grief, Eye

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 76

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• We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1701, Delphi Classics

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• When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

  Euripides

  Evil, Mind, Election

  "Orestes". Play by Euripides, 408 BCE.

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• When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Parent, Heaven

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• Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Trying, Body

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.

  Euripides

  Drinking, Men, Dancing

  Euripides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)”, p.908, Delphi Classics

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• In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.

  Samuel Johnson

  Laughter, Laughing, Bed

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.610

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