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“The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”

Path Sadness Land Sorrow Misery

Book:The Poems of William Cowper ...

Source: The Poems of William Cowper ...

“How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!”

Heart Dream Grief Land Return Sorrow Heavy Disaster Oblivion Mute Morrow Slumber Deceptive Wailing

Book:The Last Man

Source: The Last Man

“The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.”

May Christ Land Rocks Sorrow Quiet Findings Trials Shelter Refuge Weary

Author:J.R. Miller

“Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!”

Knows Love Done Land Crime Sorrow Deeds Rage Greece Turtles Emblems Vulture Cypresses Myrtle Madden

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.”

Land Mines Sorrow Gold Salvation Possessed

Book:The Plumed Serpent

Source: The Plumed Serpent

“I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.”

Ifs Knows Way Might Desire Grief Lord Saws Land Arms Sorrow Swim Flood Glances Our Lord Jerusalem Gladness Heaviness

Author:Samuel Rutherford

“All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.”

“It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.”

Feels Years Earth Joy Sound Air Mystery Land Century Sorrow Battle Skins Weight Smell Darling Counting Weighing Brushing

Book:Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

Source: Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

“You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.”

Knows Dream Joy Forget Land Sorrow Riches Loyalty Frustration Never Forget Quests Loyalty And Friendship

Author:Brian Jacques

“Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows”

Way Children Littles Play Shows Pain Life Is Passion Poor Land Sweet Sorrow Quiet Shadow Garden Calm Dear Thee Deception My Children Weary Enchantment Hush Sweet Child

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all...”

Stories Would Be Joy Wonder Journey Land Possibility Sorrow Battle Endless

Book:Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

Source: Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

“Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?”

Ifs Mind May Helping Jobs Joy Names Process Land Stupid Sorrow Degrees Letters Series Extraordinary Dull Weary Good Job Subtlety Extraordinary Beauty

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“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

“There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.”

“Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world.”

World Soul Body Song Passion Blood Land Emotional Sorrow Moon Deny Rage Chosen Pulse Fluid Faerie Portal Full Moon Chosen One

Author:Brian Froud