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“No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.”

Men World Years Two Work Cities He Man Sorrow Eternal Standards Labor Crosses Lonely Wander Thirty Shops Village Agony Homeless Obscure Success And Failure Shameful Carpenter True Life

Author:Frederic Farrar

“The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.”

Men Needs Joy Secret Violence He Man Sorrow Silent Thunder Defence Discontent Armour Vaults

Book:Poetical Works (in English) of Thomas Campion

Source: Poetical Works (in English) of Thomas Campion

“Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.”

Men Whole He Man Sorrow Gold Crucible Makest

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.”

Ifs Men Should Soul Age Night Song Fall Tears He Man Poet Sorrow Fame Combat Loved Ones Shed Consumed Weeping Dreary Forsaken Renowned

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.”

Ifs Men Littles Soul Joy Force He Man Arms Sorrow Hundred Conscience Labor Workers Shed Tranquility Thorough Sulky

Author:William Wilberforce

“The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.”

Men Grief He Man Sorrow Sacred Misery Triumph Wretched Admirable Brows

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.”

Men Should Shows Would Be Emotion He Man Sorrow Battle Raised Superiors Funeral Ridicule Puppets Apathetic Puppet Shows

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“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

“Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.”

Men Real Joy Heaven Christ Hell He Man Sorrow Aim Missions Supreme Conversion Motive Missionary Missionary Life

Author:Hudson Taylor

“Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.”

Men World Inspirational May Littles Done Life Is Purpose Sin Forget This World He Man Sorrow Creatures Fellows Improvement Never Forget Spheres Diminish Serving Others

Author:William E. Gladstone

“This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.”

Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Prefatory Memoir Signed: C. T.]

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

Men Real Running Nature Sadness He Man Sorrow Delight Spite One With Nature The Wild Nature

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson