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«The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrows and double our joys.»
Author: Barry C. Forbes | Keywords: double, joys, sorrows
«The truest joys they seldom prove, Who free from quarrels live; 'Tis the most tender part of love, Each other to forgive»
«Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.»
«We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.»
«So, if I dream I have you, I have you, / For all our joys are but fantastical.»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: fantastical, Have You, joys
«What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. - letter to his wife, 1864»
«Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming in the joys of night;Sleep, sleep; in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.»
«There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.»
«We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Choice, Poetry, Sorrow | Keywords: joys, sorrows
«Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles»

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