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“All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.”

Beautiful Beauty Sadness Poet Sweet Longing Awake Beautiful Things Wisest Sweet Music

Author:Richard Chenevix Trench

“The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And mar the face of beauty, when no cause For such immeasurable woe appears; These Flora banishes, and gives the fair Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than her own.”

Giving Eye Faces Felt Causes Sadness Sweet Lows Fairs Rings Mars Reign Woe Transient Sullen Flora Spleen Sweet Smile Petulance

Book:William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

Source: William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

“Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I do but bring Thee rest and calm. Then wherefore dost thou ban And curse me? Since the forming of God's plan I have not hurt or harmed a mortal thing, I have bestowed sweet balm for every sting, And peace eternal for earth's stormy span.”

Men Earth Hurt Plans Sadness Sweet Sad Eternal Approach Calm Mortals Thee Curse Shrinks Rivals Bans Stormy God's Plan

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

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

“Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?”

Giving Heart Enough Sadness Sweet My Heart Sad My Friends Slavery Slave Wounds Torture Me Alone Deep Wounds

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English

“Naught so sweet as melancholy.”

Sadness Sweet Misery Melancholy

Author:Robert A. Burton

“God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.”

Sadness Sweet Laughter Bitter Conversations With God Divine Purpose

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust”

Way Firsts Heart Feelings Sadness Sweet Excitement Seconds Gypsy

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.”

“Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.”

Feels Behinds Sadness Sweet Bitter Pacs Very Sweet Sweet Smile Behind A Smile

Author:Tupac Shakur

“My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.”

Joy Jesus Christ Loss Lord Rich Sadness Sweet Sorrow Affliction

Book:Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

“I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.”

Source: The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope

“So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn There's vultures and thieves at your back The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies That you make up for all that you lack. It don't make no difference, escaping one last time It's easier to believe In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness That brings me to my knees.”

Believe Lasts Lying Song Turns Differences Lines Sadness Building Sweet Easier Madness Tired Storm Knees Glorious Thieves Last Time Escaping Straight Lines Vulture

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.”

Life Inspirational Sound Nature Memories Behinds Sun Sadness Sky Sweet Sorrow Mountain Findings Singing Rivers Leaving Happy Shade Making Love Finding Happiness Riverside

Author:John Denver

“And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of birdsong and summer perfumes, full of strange glimpses and intimations just out of the corner of my eye, of longings and sadness and undefined hopes.It has a name, this sweet disturbance. Its name is Lamorna.”

Eye Song Names Air Sadness Changed Strange Sweet Summer Bird Longing Corners Evening Glimpse Perfume Disturbance Things Have Changed Birdsong Undefined Bird Song

Author:Michael Frayn

“Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.”

Heaven Hell Sadness Sweet Baby Arms My Baby Sweet Baby

Author:Waylon Jennings

“It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.”

Believe Sadness Sweet Easier Madness Knees Glorious

Author:Sarah McLachlan