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“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”

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John Ruskin was an influential British art critic, writer, and social critic. Known for his profound insights into art, architecture, and social issues, he had a significant impact on the aesthetics and culture of the Victorian era. more

“'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love; But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.”

Love Seems Eye Faces Spirit Poverty Feet Fronts Cold Sorrow Glory Angel Shining Rounds Calm Golden Lifts Firm Sickness Climbs Mask Ladders Calamity Radiant Those We Love Frowning

Author:James Russell Lowell

“God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after the rain, Shining and lovely again. God, make me brave for life; much braver than this. As the blown grass lifts, let me rise From sorrow with quiet eyes, Knowing Thy way is wise. God, make me brave, life brings Such blinding things. Help me to keep my sight; Help me to see aright That out of dark comes light.”

Way Helping Light Eye Pain Dark Darkness Knowing Wise Tree Sorrow Quiet Rain Let Me Sight Bravery Shining Brave Lovely Lifts Grass Help Me After The Rain

Author:Grace Noll Crowell

“Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.”

Believe Hands Joy Belief Wonder Duty Sorrow Angel Trials Believe In Me Overshadowing

Author:Giovanni Giocondo

“It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.”

Happiness Death Poverty Rich Sorrow Unity

Book:Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds

Source: Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds

“We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.”

People Mean Use Pain Prayer Too Much Modern Tears Taught Sorrow Comfort Crosses Originals Uplifting Heroic Soothing Strengthening Cushions

Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

“With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let them sleep, Nor seek to summon back one ghost Of that innumerable host. Concern yourself with but today; Woo it and teach it to obey Your wish and will. Since time began Today has been the friend of man. But in his blindness and his sorrow He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.”

“I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.”

Littles Born Sin Sorrow

Book:Millay: Poems

Source: Millay: Poems

“Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.”

Knows Friendship Four Sorrow Wiser Foe Idleness Unattainable Freckles

Author:Dorothy Parker

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