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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
(George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. The Mill on the Floss, bk. 4, ch. 3 (1860).
Real name is Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans.)
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Old McDonald had a farm. To his sorrow, to his sorrow.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Hyperion (l. 35-36). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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"I weave the shoes of Sorrow:
Soundless shall be the footfall light
In all men's ears of Sorrow,
Sudden and light."
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes.")
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A scented sorrow, corseted!
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Euthanasia.")
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No memories of felicity save with faint ruffle of sorrow
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator of "All Strange Away," in Rockaby and Other Short Pieces, p. 62, Grove Press (1981).)
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Down, thou climbing sorrow,
Thy element's below.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Lear, in King Lear, act 2, sc. 4, l. 57-8.
Afraid his heart will burst; "element" means proper place.)
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
(Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Here Lies, "Sentiment," (1939).
For the original, see Wordsworth on poetry.)
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Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 5, p. 19, AMS Press (1990).)
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Sorrow, the great idealizer.
(James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), U.S. poet, editor. Among My Books, "Spenser," Second Series (1876).)
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