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Showing posts with label sadness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sadness. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Post #2477

There is a chord in every human heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
—Ouida

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Post #2467

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter ; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
—Charles Caleb Colton

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Tuesday, February 07, 2017

Post #2267

When soured by disappointment, we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagree able ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.
—Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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Thursday, October 06, 2016

Post #2179

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
—Jean de la Bruyère

Monday, April 20, 2015

Post #1796

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by his side.
—Edwin Whipple

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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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