With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
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The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
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The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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