“ There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! ”
- Robert Gilfillan- Copy
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“ Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
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“ In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ”
- Leslie Caron- Copy
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“ The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe. ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
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“ There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by. ”
- George Meredith- Copy
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“ Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go. ”
- John Powell- Copy
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“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you have yet survived; But what torments of grief you have endured, From evils that never arrived. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. ”
- John Armstrong- Copy
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“ The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
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“ Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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