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To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
Daniel Defoe1660–1731Robinson Crusoe (1719), Chapter XIIn context
- Change
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXVIIIIn context
- Good & Evil
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On Joy and SorrowIn context
- Happiness
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On Reason and PassionIn context
- Thinking
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Part III, Chapter VIn context
- Intelligence
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene III, spoken by MalcolmIn context
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act V, Scene III, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Health
The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief;
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act I, Scene III, spoken by DukeIn context
O, now, for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act III, Scene III, spoken by OthelloIn context
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene II, spoken by AntonyIn context
I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by MirandaIn context
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene II, spoken by PortiaIn context
- Thinking
There are no faces truer than those that are so washed; how much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act I, Scene I, spoken by LeonatoIn context
- Happiness
Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act III, Scene II, spoken by BenedickIn context
- Advice
Whensoever by some present hard occurrences thou art constrained to be in some sort troubled and vexed, return unto thyself as soon as may be, and be not out of tune longer than thou must needs.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations (c. 170–180), The Sixth BookIn context
- Advice