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“Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.”

Children Has Beens House Race Fine Sorrow Equal Labor Tables Embrace Ill Israel Curse Fallen Locked Adversaries Lament Fervor Impartiality

Author:John L. Lewis

“Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each.”

Knows Men Heart Home House Bears Circumstances Sorrow Breasts Ashes Armor

Book:The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.

Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.

“I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)”

“Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies, the very clouds of sorrow may be fringed with golden light. Thus will the song in the house of your pilgrimage be always the truest harmony. It will be composed of no jarring, discordant notes; but with all its varied tones will form one sustained, life-long melody; dropped for a moment in death, only to be resumed with the angels, and blended with the everlasting cadences of your Father's house.”

May Long Moments Light Form Song Father House Sky Sorrow Angel Harmony Notes Clouds Golden Tone Sunset Melody Everlasting Long Life Truest Pilgrimage Vapor Cadence Consecration Golden Light

Author:John Ross Macduff

“To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows.”

Knows Joy House Serious Needed Sorrow Drinking Evening Flavor Bartender Joys And Sorrows

Book:The Joy of Drinking

Source: The Joy of Drinking

“In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.”

Wells Whole Eye Song House Speak Sleep Rooms Sorrow Blonde

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

Heart Spiritual Joy House Grows Space Rooms Sorrow Roots Green Shakes Yellow Rotten Pull Ups Pain And Sorrow Sufi Mystic Green Leaves Yellow Leaves

Author:Rumi

“And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.”

Kind Seems House Grief Too Much Sorrow Blessing Dear Obvious Trials Bitter Disguise Blessings In Disguise

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.”

Men House Can Do Journey Terrible Sorrow Storm Destroyed Arrivals Beloved Country Cry The Beloved Country

Book:Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

“What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other.”

Trying Together Order House Gone Sorrow Equal Daughter Awful Fragile Being There Orbit Our Daughter

Author:Paul Harding

“My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.”

“A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals.”

“What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.”

House Cities Situation Sorrow Theatre Ruins Wander Awful Immortality Temples Weed Senate Posterity Traveller Sorrowful Reptiles Citadels

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.”

Happens Motivational Suffering House Doors Keys Sorrow Bigger Misfortunes

Author:Charles Fletcher Lummis