SORROW.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow.
Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7. SHAKESPEARE.
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
Night Thoughts, Night III. DR. E. YOUNG.
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate,
Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours
Weeping upon his bed has sate,
He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.
Hyperion, Bk. I. Motto: from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister.
H.W. LONGFELLOW.
One fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is lessened by another's anguish;
Turn giddy, and be helped by backward turning;
One desp'rate grief cures with another's languish;
Take thou some new infection to the eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.
Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
All that's bright must fade,—
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest!
National Airs: All that's bright must fade. T. MOORE.
O God! O God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan.
Sorrow calls no time that's gone:
Violets plucked, the sweetest rain
Makes not fresh nor grow again.
The Queen of Corinth, Act iii. Sc. 2. J. FLETCHER.
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
The Course of Time, Bk. I. R. POLLOK.
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest showers,
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest winds.
Misc. Sonnets, Pt. I. XXXIII. W. WORDSWORTH.
Affliction is the good man's shining scene;
Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
Night Thoughts, Night IX. DR. E. YOUNG.
Like a ball that bounds
According to the force with which 'twas thrown
So in affliction's violence, he that's wise
The more he's cast down will the higher rise.
Microcosmos. T. NABBES.
O, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know erelong,—
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
The Light of Stars. H.W. LONGFELLOW.