#sorrows

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. ↗

— Hesiod

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. ↗

— Jean Paul

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But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. ↗

— Charles Reade

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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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