sorrow

• The other sorrow is a depression of spirits, brought about by the devil, who endeavors to render us tepid and sluggish, to give us a disgust for pious exercises, and to induce us to give them up. —  The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
• 'Weep for yourselves,' for the feeling of the sorrow is the precedent condition to the benefit from the sorrow, and it yields 'the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby But, on the other hand, the black stream is not to bank up the sunny one, or prevent it from flowing into the heart, ay! —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• Give you something for which you pray, your sorrow is away, and ye can no more mourn for sin; and take something away, and your joy is gone, ye cannot delight in God. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• Though his sorrow is apt to become petulance, there is much that is as big in spirit as in handling. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
• He himself could do but little at home because he could not yield his opinion on those matters of importance as to which he and his mother differed so vitally; but if she had a woman with her in the house,--such a woman as his own Sophia,--then he thought her heart would be softened and part of her sorrow might be assuaged Sophia at last said that she would think about it. —  Orley Farm

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