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“About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.”

Humans Wells Suffering Position Masters Walking Sorrow Eating Understood Window Opening

Author:W. H. Auden

“Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.”

Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

“Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room!”

Life Looks Children Hope Rooms Masters Sorrow Labor Prepared Yesterday Faster Heirs Morrow Weaving

Author:Mary Lasswell

“Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. ... In this way the soul can become like soft clay in the hands of the Master.”

Way Soul Hands Seems Masters Sorrow Adversity Including Painful Faithful Anguish Clay Being Faithful

Author:James E. Faust

“Oh for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace! My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim, to spread through all the earth abroad the honors of thy name. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease; 'tis music in the sinner's ears, 'tis life, and health, and peace.”

Earth Jesus Names Peace Grace Masters Kings Honor Sorrow Thousand Glory Ears Praise Spread Tongue Cease Triumph Charm Sinner Gracious Redeemer

Book:Fifty Hymns by Charles Wesley

Source: Fifty Hymns by Charles Wesley

“To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are my glory. But that you should turn from your own mercy, this is my sorrow. Spit on me, but, oh, repent! Laugh at me, but, oh, believe in my Master! Make my body as the dirt of the streets, but damn not your own souls!”

Should Believe I Can Soul Body Turns Laughing Streets Masters Sorrow Glory Mercy Delight Damn Hardship Laughed Dirt Repent Spit Slander Caricatures

Book:Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London

Source: Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London

“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.”

Inspiration Faces Joy Masters Sorrow Mental Health Storm Weather Positive Attitude Bad Weather Two Masters Bad Grades Eye Of The Storm Sunny Weather

Book:Jan Vedder's Wife

Source: Jan Vedder's Wife

“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

People Men Want Years Ends Use Enjoy Pleasure Emotion Masters Sorrow Mercy Shallow Self Mastery

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-”

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”

Men Ends Pleasure Masters Sorrow Self Awareness Self Mastery Feeling Sad

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

“These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

“Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.”

Masters Sorrow Patience Endurance Companion

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?”

Source: Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

“Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.”

Way Firsts Today Teach Love You Masters Tomorrow Sorrow Harder Defeat Self Worth Buddhist Awake Over You Love Yourself Crooked

Author:Gautama Buddha

“But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.”

Hard Desire Water Justice Masters Sorrow Overcoming Buddhist Wretched Drop Of Water Lotuses

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.”

Ifs Way Desire Meditation Masters Sorrow Shining Arise Dharma Passing Away Free Yourself

Author:Gautama Buddha