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Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? - Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Hymns in Prose (XIII) Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 9) To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. - Abraham Lincoln A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day is Done (st. 3) We never do anything, consciously, for the last time, without sadness of heart. - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater") Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you. Sorrow so royally in you appears That I will deeply put the fashion on And wear it in my heart. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at V, ii) We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark (st. 18) It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Following the Equator (ch. 45) 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 676)
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