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"Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."	Carl Gustav Jung
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."	Dr.
"You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows."	William Peter Horn
"There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow."	Alfred Adler
"For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one's life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning."	Psalms 30:5 Bible
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears."	Rene Descartes
"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified."	Aesop
"The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Comfort ye, my people; speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow's load. For the glory of the Lord now o'er earth is shed abroad; and all flesh shall see the token that His word is never broken."	Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible
"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough; the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions? Let us examine the question."	Aleister Crowley
"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 127:2 Bible
"A gentle word is never lost...It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it."	Hastings
"I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"If you lived in the Dark Ages, and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask is, 'Can't you make it shoot farther?' No. I'm sorry. That's as far as it shoots."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep."	Henry Maudsley
"The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger." [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]"	George Walker Bush
"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow."	Joseph Conrad
"I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)"	Dwight David Eisenhower
"When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them."	Jerome Klapka Jerome
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Alfred Adler	Carl Gustav Jung	Charles Fletcher Lummis
Doris Lessing	Dr.	Dr. Samuel Johnson
Dwight David Eisenhower	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
George Walker Bush	God's Little Instruction Book	Hastings
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Louis Mencken	Henry Maudsley
Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jerome Klapka Jerome
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Newton	Joseph Conrad
Kahlil Gibran	Leonard	Leo Durocher
Max Lerner	Miguel de Cervantes	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Psalms 30:5 Bible	Psalm 127:2 Bible	Rene Descartes
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Victor Hugo	William Peter Horn