Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self same well from which your laughter rises was often times filled with your tears.
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You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you.
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There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
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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?
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Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.
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The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talk'd the night away; Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.
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I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.
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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
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Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
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'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
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He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
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For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one's life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.
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Sorrow looks back.. Worry looks around.. But, faith looks up.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
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He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ectasy.
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Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
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Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.
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