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«Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy»
Author: Robert Burton
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Melancholy,
Music
| Keywords:
dejected, discontent, hearing, pleasing, remedy, woe
«Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness»
Author: Robert Burton
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Love,
Lovers
| Keywords:
agony, complaints, irksome, sighs, solitariness, suspicions, woe
«Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Self-knowledge,
Trouble,
World
| Keywords:
abilities, all the way, almost all, frailties, ninety, percent, Strangers, virtues, woe
«Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bunches, clique, conform, nonconformist, nonconformists, nonconformity, rule in, woe
«Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.»
«Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.»
«Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
brought, disobedience, forbidden, forbidden fruit, fruit, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, taste, woe
«Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so»
«Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Pity
| Keywords:
fellowship, woe
«O! woe is me,To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!»
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