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Yet be sad, good brothers,
For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
Sorrow so royally read more
Yet be sad, good brothers,
For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
Sorrow so royally in you appears
That I will deeply put the fashion on
And wear it in my heart.
We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
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We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt
you to the heart: the one to slander read more
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt
you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get
the news to you.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when read more
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, read more
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.