#sorrow

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ↗

— Thomas More

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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow. ↗

— George William Curtis

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Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. ↗

— Washington Irving

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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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