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“There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.”

Has Beens Ends Body Hours Sorrow Tired Graves Unhappy Contemplation Pleasant Happy Life Worn Worn Out Unhappy Life

Book:Twelve Years a Slave

Source: Twelve Years a Slave

“I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.”

World Has Beens Suffering Left Peace Principles Produce Sorrow Stronger Deeper Rage Ideology Developing Nonviolence Aversion

Author:Joan Baez

“Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.”

World Heart May Has Beens Virtue Sorrow Shame Terror Driven Secrecy

Book:The Time of Your Life

Source: The Time of Your Life

“If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Reality Sorrow Glory Surface Unconscious Penitence

Author:Frederic Dan Huntington

“God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."”

“Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.”

Children Has Beens House Race Fine Sorrow Equal Labor Tables Embrace Ill Israel Curse Fallen Locked Adversaries Lament Fervor Impartiality

Author:John L. Lewis

“Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.”

Love May Has Beens Joy Causes Love Is Keys Sorrow All Things Aim Centre Joys And Sorrows Recompense

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)