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“Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrow and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again.”

Heart Soul Pain Sorrow Glad My Soul Spite Refrain Begin Again

Author:Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

“It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.”

Mean Beautiful Family Sorrow Worried Excitement Spite Beautiful Family

Author:Ivy Compton-Burnett

“Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.”

Goes On Sorrow Defense Spite Life Goes On

Book:Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women

Source: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women

“So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.”

Knows Humans Long Facts Spirit Human Beings Know How Duty Amount Sorrow Increase Spite

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

“To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.”

Source: Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990

“It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.”

Said Three Hours Break Cold Sorrow Weather Parks Spite Autumn Up And Down Intercourse Break Off

Book:James Joyce The Dover Reader

Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader

“Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything is all you’ve got…and after Everything is nothing. So you were wise to welcome Everything, the good and the bad alike, and cling to it all. Gather it in. Seek the meaning in sorrow and don’t ever turn away, not once, from here until the end. Because it is all the same, it is all unfathomable, and it is all infinitely preferable to the one dreadful alternative.”

Ends Matter Turns Wise Sorrow Welcome Alternatives Spite Unfathomable

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him”

Ifs Knows Men Has Beens Said Left Hours Poor Sorrow Creatures Conscious Misery Spite This Day Recalls Disgrace Blight

Book:Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.”

Source: The Works of Charles Kingsley

“Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky.”

Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell

“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