#sorrow

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. ↗

— Saadi

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Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy. ↗

— George William Russell

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Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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The cure for sorrow is to learn something. ↗

— Barbara Sher

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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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