Cornelia Meigs Quotes
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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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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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.
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[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
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Lack of knowledge is the
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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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Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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To revive sorrow is cruel.
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Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?
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Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
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For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.
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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?
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Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.
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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
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And we call upon others to join us on the right side of history - for while small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.
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War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and that’s all there is in it.
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It’s a hymn of the heretic, a piyut liturgical poem of a modern, doubtful person.
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Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.
