#sorrow

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow. ↗

— George William Curtis

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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. ↗

— Washington Irving

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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. ↗

— Alexandre Vinet

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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. ↗

— Saadi

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Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy. ↗

— George William Russell

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