"But sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away."

Sorrow, Emotion, Loss, Grief

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"But sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away."

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"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

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"My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping."

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"The worst kind of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see- the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it."

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"Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow."

John Fletcher, English Dramatist

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"Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning."

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"Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Each new mornNew widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrowsStrike heaven on the face, that it resoundsAs if it felt with Scotland, and yelled outLike syllable of dolor."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dying."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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"The saddest sorrow is to desire death while you have life."

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"But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it."

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"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."

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"The hearts of great men can be changed."

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"But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well-for your own son's death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels-I've lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men."

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"Too many kings can ruin an army."

Leadership

"It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad."

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"Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this."

Courage

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

Friendship

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

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"The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things."

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