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Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black, over our heads, hardly gray. – Richter	added by anonymous 12 years ago
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows. – Berenson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Chapter 7	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert, Charles Bovary	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them. – Homer, The Odyssey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail. – Logan Pearsall Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. – Josh Billings	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. – Logan Pearsall Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them. – Homer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. – Lydia Maria Child	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep. – Psalm 1272 Bible	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility that yours is a fake. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds. – Jeremy Taylor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness. – Appianus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return! – Dr. Jose P. Rizal	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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