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“Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.”

Knows Joy Tomorrow Sorrow Despair Fairs

Author:Edgar Guest

“As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.”

Ifs Should Sorrow Fairs Bitter Strokes Remembrance Felicity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“I sorrow that all fair things must decay.”

Sorrow Fairs Decay

Author:Fitz-Greene Halleck

“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.”

World Reason Grief Figures Sorrow Taste Fairs Size Vain Proportion Tolerate Affliction Ridicule Limbs Not Fair Conjunctions Unbecoming

Book:Persuasion - Jane Austen

Source: Persuasion - Jane Austen

“Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”

Men Way Looks Soul Light Lying Imagination Steps Imagine He Man Flower Sorrow Musician Singing Bird Fairs Dear Delight Grass Bites Singing Birds

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.”

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”

World Inspirational Humor Laughing Humour Sorrow Disease Laughter Fairs Noble Adjustment Contagious Infection Carols Christmas Carol Good Humour

Book:A Christmas Carol

Source: A Christmas Carol

“There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.”

Kind Children Moments Helping Pain Parent Perfect Sorrow Fairs Ultimate Parenting Painful Innocence Your Children Misfortunes Betray Rooted Contemplating Obliged Destroyers

Author:Michael Chabon

“Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.”

Dream Light Waiting Sorrow Moon Fairs Joyful Tots

Author:Christina Rossetti

“Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien”

Stills Light Joy Darkness Sorrow Shadow Fairs Ears Endure Tales Ruins Weeping Shadow Of Death Silmarillion

Book:The Silmarillion

Source: The Silmarillion

“There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal.”

Care Land Sorrow Fairs

Author:Carolina Nairne