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It is difficulties that show what men are
It is difficulties that show what men are
Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.
Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.
Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.
Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most
unhappy kind of misfortune.
[Lat., In read more
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most
unhappy kind of misfortune.
[Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est
infortunii fuisse felicem.]
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Since sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Since sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have read more
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.
How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.
Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is read more
Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is knit with ties
Of common brotherhood in pain.
