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Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.
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Bible
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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William Blake
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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
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William Blake
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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
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William Blake
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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Lord Byron
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Lord Byron
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.
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Arthur Hugh Clough
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
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Confucius
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The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
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William Cowper
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To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
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Emily Dickinson
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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
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Emile Durkheim
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Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sorrow makes us children again.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth.
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C. Fitzhugh
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There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy.
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C. Fitzhugh
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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Washington Irving
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