"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Sorrow, Peace, Mind, Awareness, Silence

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"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Homer, Greek Poet

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

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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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."

Katie McGarry, American Author

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"Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed."

Peter S. Beagle, American Author

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."

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"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."

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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

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"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."

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"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."

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