| "Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow. -- John Gay |
| Author:
Gay, JohnEra:
1685 |
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| If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author:
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra:
1807 |
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| There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. -- Tupper |
| Author:
TupperEra:
1810 |
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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 Richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away. -- Jean J. Rousseau |
| Author:
Rousseau, Jean J.Era:
1712 |
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| When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us? -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. -- George Eliot |
| Author:
Eliot, GeorgeEra:
1819 |
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