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 2. Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

 3. All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?

 4. 'All is transient. 'When one sees this, he is above sorrow. This is the clear path. 'All is sorrow. 'When one sees this, he is above sorrow. This is the clear path. 'All is unreal. 'When one sees this he is above sorrow. This is the clear path.

 5. As joy is not without its alloy of pain, so neither is sorrow without its portion of pleasure.

 6. Be not deceived with fair pretences, nor suppose that sorrow healeth misfortune. It is a poison under the colour of a remedy; while it pretendeth to draw the arrow from thy breast, lo, it plungeth it into thine heart.

 7. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

 8. Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

 9. Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.

10. Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

11. Each time we love, We turn nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

12. Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

13. Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

14. For a man who is contented with little, Wealth is inexhaustible. He who continually seeks and is never satisfied Will experience a constant rain of sorrow.

15. Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

16. Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it lightly.

17. Grief is natural to the mortal world, and is always about thee; pleasure is a guest, and visiteth thee but by thy invitation; use well thy mind, and sorrow shall be passed behind thee; be prudent, and the visits of joy shall remain long with thee.

18. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness eve can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

19. Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.

20. Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

21. Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

22. If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

23. If our inward grieves were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied!

24. If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

25. If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

26. In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like a torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

27. It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage and even of the wish for recovery.

28. It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

29. Let no man ever cleave to things that are pleasantor to those that are unpleasant. Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it is pain to see what is unpleasant.

30. Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

31. Man's unhappiness comes of his greatness; it is because there is an infinite in him, which, with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite.

32. Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

33. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive grief the enemy of the living.

34. Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

35. Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

36. No grief is so acute but that time ameliorates it.

37. Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

38. Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.

39. Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights.

40. Our sorrows are like thunder-clouds, which seem black in the distance, but grow lighter as they approach.

41. Past sorrows, let us moderately lament them; For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them.

42. Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

43. Sadness is not an evil. Complain not; what seem to be sufferings and obstacles are often in reality the mysterious efforts of nature to help you in your work if you can manage them properly. Look upon all circumstances with the gratitude of a pupil. All complaint is a rebellion against the law of progress.

44. Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining; though woe be heavy, yet it seldom sleeps, and they who watch, see time how slow it creeps.

45. So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

46. Sorrow is a form of self-pity.

47. Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

48. Sorrow is invited frequently, pleasure rarely; pain cometh of itself, delight must be purchased; grief is unmixed, but joy wanteth not its alloy of bitterness. As the soundest health is less perceived than the lightest malady, so the highest joy toucheth us less deep than the smallest sorrow.

49. Sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies.

50. Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing.

51. Sorrow's best antidote is employment.

52. Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

53. Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

54. Tears are sometimes as weighty as words.

55. Tears are the noble language of the eye.

56. Tears are the silent language of grief.

57. Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

58. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

59. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair.

60. Tell me, ye winged winds That round my pathway roar, Know ye not some spot Where mortals weep no more?

61. That grief is light which can take counsel.

62. The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.

63. The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.

64. The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

65. The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown; no traveller ever reached that blessed abode who found not thorns and briars in his road.

66. The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

67. The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

68. The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

69. The storm of grief bears hard upon his youth, And bends him like a drooping flower to earth.

70. There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain.

71. There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

72. There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.

73. There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

74. They truly mourn that mourn without a witness.

75. Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

76. Two barrels of tears do not heal a bruise.

77. We pamper little grieves into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

78. We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

79. We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

80. Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone: Violets plucked the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.

81. What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? what giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

82. When I was young, I said to Sorrow, "Come and I will play with thee!" He is near me now all day, And at night returns to say, "I will come again to-morrow, I will come and stay with thee."

83. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

84. Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.

85. Words that weep and tears that speak.