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The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136