William Blake Quotes
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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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.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are deplorable. This is one of the worst disasters our nation has ever faced and the challenges to getting people out of harm's way are immeasurable. Some relief efforts, such as those at the convention center, are not moving as quickly or as smoothly as we would like.
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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.
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
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Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
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My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
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New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.
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Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
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Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
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The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist--a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.
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If we didn’t have finance, though? Forget the 1970s—try the 1270s. Economic progress emerges from the intelligent combination of capital and innovation. Remove capital from the equation—and the financial markets that accumulate and direct that capital into the hands of innovators—and the result is poverty and stagnation.
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He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
