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“On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.”

Men Humans Feelings Sadness Pure Solitude Fairs Train Delight Perceive Human Life Musings

Author:William Wordsworth

“America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.”

America Lying Gone Air Sadness Huge Pure Mountain Burden Ripe Lethargy Mountain Air

Author:Ralph Steadman

“I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place.”

Firsts Faces Morning Sadness Pure Sad Your Face Exalted

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

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

“Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.”

Sadness Land Thousand Pure Sad Claims Court Reverence Serene

Book:Fifty Poems

Source: Fifty Poems

“Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.”

Heart Pain Spiritual Joy Pleasure United Sadness Tears Sorrow Pure Stronger Faithful Ties Woven Joy And Happiness Pain And Sorrow Pleasure Love

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.”

“Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.”

Joy Knowledge Sadness Flower Pure Spring Pure Joy Flowers And Gardens

Book:Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928

Source: Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928

“His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.”

“The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.”

Men Love Heart Country Earth Joy Given Grace Sadness Influence Duty Sorrow Taste Pure Angel Bitter Mysterious Thanks Fulfillment Sweetness Family Love Pure Joy

Book:The Duties of Man and Other Essays

Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays

“You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.”

Want Emotion Sadness Pure Equal Happiness And Sadness Pure Happiness

Author:Derek Cianfrance

“Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.”