#sorrow

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#does #family #indeed #large #large family

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#any #capable #good #mind #real

Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#sorrow #beauty

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#joy #paint #sing #sorrow

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#become #calm #faith #faithful #find

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. ↗

— Albert Pike

#all things #born #bound #brotherhood #constitutes

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#makes #odious #sorrow #ugly

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow. ↗

— George William Curtis

#consecrated #liberty #our #sorrow

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

#darkened #dawn #enough #every #life

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

#cabin #children #cold #comes #dawns