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• Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope To find some solace for your wild unrest.

  James Thomson

  Depth, Unrest, Desperate

  James Thomson (2011). “The City of Dreadful Night”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

  Herman Melville

  Fire, Giving, Madness

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.400

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• We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Grief, Complaining

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 3: The Eternal Quest”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

  Sophocles

  Pain, Sleep, Mind

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, "Woe unto you people!!" Who says, "Woe unto me that I cannot help you?" The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Strong, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.400, Manonmani Publishers

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• He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!

  Brian Jacques

  Law, Paws, Rats

  Brian Jacques (2004). “Outcast of Redwall: A Tale from Redwall”, p.104, Penguin

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• God considers this land to be His. You read the Bible and He says 'this is my land' and for any Prime Minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, 'no, this is mine'... He was dividing God's land and I would say woe unto any Prime Minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the EU, the United Nations, or the United States of America. God says 'this land belongs to me. You'd better leave it alone.'

  Pat Robertson

  Israel, Land, Woe Unto

  "Robertson 'said Sharon being punished by God'", www.rawstory.com. January 5, 2006.

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• Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please." --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.

  Juliet Marillier

  Baby, Different, World

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• This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Order, Tragedy, Important

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• Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Loss, Want, Burden

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.275, Image

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• SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun ’tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Valentine, Men, Hands

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2011). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

  Carlo Collodi

  Childhood, Illness, Idle

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• Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  People, Stories, Trouble

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

  Alexander Pope

  Bird, Merit, Beast

  Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.252

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• Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

  Jesse Helms

  Believe, Bologna, Causes

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• But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Thinking, Blow

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• When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Land, White

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.9, Library of Alexandria

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• Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.

  Tom Robbins

  Track, Lust, World

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• Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot.

  Charles Addams

  Children, Feet, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Yield, Joy

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.413, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memories, Believe, Atheism

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.35, Princeton University Press

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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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• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.

  Thomas Adams

  Children, Wife, Sorrow

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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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