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“She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.”

Earth Sorrow Lakes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

“Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.”

Soul Grief Sorrow

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Homer

Poet

“It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.”

Sorry Sorrow

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Homer

Poet

“There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.”

Sorrow Advantage

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John Muir

Naturalist, Writer

“Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”

Earth Sorrow Heal

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Homer

Poet

“It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.”

Sorrow

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Author

“Sorrow only increased with knowledge.”

Sorrow

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Myrtle Reed

Author

“There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.”

World Looks Sorrow

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

“It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.”

Sorrow Poetry Radiance

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

“We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.”

Wisdom Joy

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Lord Byron

Poet, Novelist

“Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.”

Wise Grief

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Kurt Vonnegut

Novelist, Satirist

“This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.”

Ideas Sorrow Long Ago

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