It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have read more

It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.

There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
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There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
[Lat., Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.]

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

O, sorrow!
Why dost borrow
Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

O, sorrow!
Why dost borrow
Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is read more

Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is knit with ties
Of common brotherhood in pain.

It is difficulties that show what men are

It is difficulties that show what men are

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are read more

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

In the bitter waves of woe,
Beaten and tossed about
By the sullen winds which blow
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In the bitter waves of woe,
Beaten and tossed about
By the sullen winds which blow
From the desolate shores of doubt.