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“Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.”

Should Joy Sorrow Hunger Intense Novelists Abstinence Great Joy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.”

Mean Soul Together Joy Sorrow Goodness All Things Rejoice Wickedness Good And Bad Great Joy Good Souls

Author:Pythagoras

“I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.”

Joy Sleep Sorrow Restless Great Joy

Book:Evelina; Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World

Source: Evelina; Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World

“Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.”

Life Is Joy Sorrow Chains Great Joy

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.”

Two Running Joy Knowing Adventure Return Sorrow Horse Gates Ecstasy Great Joy Equine Great Horse

Author:Pam Brown

“Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.”

Firsts Enough Care Faces Joy Sound Lines Wonder Laughing Saws Sorrow Gay Kingdoms Fountain Wizards Merry Mirth Great Joy Pippin

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you. Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it. Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.”

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.”

Ifs Feels Has Beens Feelings Might School Form Joy Fall Justice Taught Sorrow Mouths Social Justice Wide Public School Pipe Englishmen Great Joy

Author:E. M. Forster