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“There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.”

Certain Pleasure Grief Tears Satisfaction Cures Weeping

Author:Ovid

“Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

Stills Running Pleasure Sun Tears Balls Iron Gates Rough Sweetness Strife Birds Of Prey

Author:Andrew Marvell

“Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.”

Heart Eye Remember Pleasure Tears Shed

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse.”

Causes Christ Pleasure Tears Heartache Anguish Remorse

Author:John R. Rice

“God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.”

World Stills Pleasure This World Tears Serious Promise Labor Wit Trials Thanks Labour Abandon Salt Severe Gaiety

Author:Ernest Legouve

“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”

Years Spirit Three Pleasure Race Four Blood Land Tears Hundred Riches Welcome Islands Paradise Splits Haiti

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.”

Past Pleasure Stage Tears

Author:Anne Desclos