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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.
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.
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? read more
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
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.
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the read more
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.
All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.
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
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If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.
If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.
