J. C. Macaulay Quotes
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
J. C. Macaulay
Quotes to Explore
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
Irvin Mayfield
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. Travers
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
Oswald Chambers
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
Oswald Chambers
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The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.
Gail Tsukiyama
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
Freya Stark
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That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed, But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is-is best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.
Dan Miller
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
Sam Harris
