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“It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.”

Helping Sorrow Helping Others Drunk Cups

Author:W. Sangster

“Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on his brother man; Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.”

Men Made Reason Lost Left Causes Brother Pride Sorrow Disease Ambition Madness Riches Drunk Cups Disappointed Lunacy

Book:Pollok's Course of Time

Source: Pollok's Course of Time

“There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.”

Pain Joy Tears Sorrow Cups Weeping

Author:Ovid

“Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.”

Wells Pain Class Students Sorrow Lists Cups Tea Idiot Discussion Pain And Sorrow Herbal Tea

Book:What Janie Found

Source: What Janie Found

“Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?”

Grief Sorrow Wine Cups Inspirational Love Burned Potters Ovens Griefing Inspiring Love Joys And Sorrows Pain And Sorrow Sorrow And Happiness Recovering From Grief Sorrow Love Joy And Grief

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

Humans Girl Emotion Sorrow Balls Sorry Aids Coffee Cups League Spills Coffee Cup Bowling Gutters Human Emotions Kool Aid

Book:Carrie

Source: Carrie

“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.”