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Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.”

Sorrow Speech Sublime

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.”

Sky Childhood Sorrow

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George Herbert

Poet

“Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.”

Laughing Sorrow

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George Herbert

Poet

“Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.”

Soul Grief

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.”

People Heart Sorrow

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.”

Trying Failing Sorrow

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.”

Self Past Sorrow

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George Herbert

Poet

“He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. [He that lives not well one year sorrows seven years after.]”

Years Sorrow Seven

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

“She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.”

Want Heart Sorrow

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

“Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.”

Pain Sorrow Hatred

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Leonardo da Vinci

Artist, Scientist, Inventor

“Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.”

Sorrow Envy Siege

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George R. R. Martin

Novelist, Screenwriter

“Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.”

Song May Sorrow

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