Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Sea Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

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Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

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If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

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Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

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Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

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The busy have no time for tears.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

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There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

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Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold on me; for my particular grief Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.

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Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

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That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

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My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

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There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

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Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

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