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* Of all tales 'tis the saddest—and more sad,<br>Because it makes us smile. |
* Of all tales 'tis the saddest—and more sad,<br>Because it makes us smile. |
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** [[Lord Byron]], ''Don Juan'', Canto XIII, Stanza 9. |
** [[Lord Byron]], ''[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1818-24), Canto XIII, Stanza 9. |
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* A feeling of sadness and longing,<br> That is not akin to pain,<br>And resembles sorrow only<br> As the mist resembles the rain. |
* A feeling of sadness and longing,<br> That is not akin to pain,<br>And resembles sorrow only<br> As the mist resembles the rain. |
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Revision as of 04:27, 15 June 2011
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. .
Sadness
- Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
- Anna Letitia Barbauld, Hymns in Prose, XIII.
- Of all tales 'tis the saddest—and more sad,
Because it makes us smile.- Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XIII, Stanza 9.
- A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day is Done, Stanza 3.
- Yet be sad, good brothers,
* * * * *
Sorrow so royally in you appears,
That I will deeply put the fashion on.- William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act V, scene 2, line 49.
- We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.- Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark, Stanza 18.
- 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.
- Edward Young, Night Thoughts, Night IV, line 676.