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sorrow

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

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Genius is sorrow’s child.

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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

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Parting is such sweet sorrow.

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

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

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Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

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Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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