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"A gentle word is never lost...It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it."	Hastings
"Comfort ye, my people; speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow's load. For the glory of the Lord now o'er earth is shed abroad; and all flesh shall see the token that His word is never broken."	Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible
"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."	Aleister Crowley
"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."	Psalms 30:5 Bible
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."	Victor Hugo
"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."	Kahlil Gibran
"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear: It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, And drives away his fears."	John Newton
"I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"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."	Charles Fletcher Lummis
"I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers."	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
"I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)"	Dwight David Eisenhower
"I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye."	Leonard
"I wish I lived on a planet that had two suns---regular sun and 'rogue' sun. That way, when somebody asked me what time it was, I'd say, 'Regular time?' And they'd say, 'Yeah.' And I'd say, 'Sorry, all I have is rogue time.' It'd be fun to be a stuck-up rogue-time guy."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom, but nobody beats me.'"	Leo Durocher
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."	Albert Einstein
"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."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"If you lived in the Dark Ages, and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask is, 'Can't you make it shoot farther?' No. I'm sorry. That's as far as it shoots."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow."	Joseph Conrad
"It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep."	Psalm 127:2 Bible
"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."	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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Dwight David Eisenhower	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
George Walker Bush	God's Little Instruction Book	Hastings
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Louis Mencken	Henry Maudsley
Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jerome Klapka Jerome
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Newton	Joseph Conrad
Kahlil Gibran	Leonard	Leo Durocher
Max Lerner	Miguel de Cervantes	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Psalms 30:5 Bible	Psalm 127:2 Bible	Rene Descartes
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Victor Hugo	William Peter Horn