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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?


Thomas Kempis

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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.
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KAHLIL GIBRAN Shared sorrow is half sorrow
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BIBLE There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery--
DANTE ALIGHIERI There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
ALFRED MUSSET There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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P.T. FORSYTH A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
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CONFUCIUS If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
CONFUCIUS If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
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KAHLIL GIBRAN Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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AMIN MAALOUF Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
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ALICE CARY Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
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LADY GAGA Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights.
FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
JEAN INGELOW The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemqu...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmer...
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JEAN FRANCOIS DUCIS The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.
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LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., ...
BOETHIUS Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheure...
UNKNOWN How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.
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JOHN KEATS There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. [Lat., Nessun...
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.
ARGENTINE PROVERB Tears are words the heart can't express
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
JEAN INGELOW O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
JOHN KEATS Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together
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ISABELLE EBERHARDT Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat
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ERIK LARSON Sorrow everywhere,
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THOMAS A KEMPIS What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to ...
THOMAS A KEMPIS Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
THOMAS à KEMPIS For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardl...
THOMAS à KEMPIS Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
THOMAS A KEMPIS The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss.
THOMAS A. KEMPIS No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth t...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord True it is that every man willingly foll...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 Be not angry that you c...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at th...
THOMAS À KEMPIS The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he unders...
THOMAS À KEMPIS It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be rea...
THOMAS À KEMPIS At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
THOMAS À KEMPIS He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, beca...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of the Holy Cross When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is g...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; somet...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matter...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 Whoever loves much, does ...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropis...
THOMAS À KEMPIS In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judg...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Foun...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the myste...
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