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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. - Bible, Matthew (ch. XXIII, v. 23) An Iliad of woes. - Demosthenes 387, 12 Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. - Robert Greene, Sonnet When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. - Robert Herrick, Sorrows Succeed And woe succeeds woe. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), Iliad (bk. XVI, l. 139), (Pope's translation) Long exercised in woes. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), Odyssey (bk. I, l. 2), (Pope's translation) So perish all whose breast ne'er learned to glow For other's good or melt at other's woe. - Alexander Pope, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady I was not always a man of woe. - Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto II, st. 12) One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at IV, vii) I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at III, v) Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night III, l. 63)
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