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    Sorrow preys upon
    Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it
    From its sad visions of the other world
    Than calling it at moments back to this.
    The busy have no time for tears.

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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.

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My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.
[Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu read more

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.
[Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me reste.]

by Jean Francois Ducis Found in: Sorrow Quotes,
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Tears are words the heart can't express

Tears are words the heart can't express

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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most
unhappy kind of misfortune.
[Lat., In read more

In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most
unhappy kind of misfortune.
[Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est
infortunii fuisse felicem.]

by Boethius Found in: Sorrow Quotes,
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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?

by John Keats Found in: Sorrow Quotes,
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.

by William Cowper Found in: Sorrow Quotes,
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A happier lot were mine,
If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,
For I read more

A happier lot were mine,
If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,
For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,--
Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none,
And no dear mother.

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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

by Philip James Bailey Found in: Sorrow Quotes,
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

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

by William Shakespeare Found in: Sorrow Quotes,
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