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Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?
I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .
To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.
Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.
Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.
Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
All I'd ever wanted to do in my life was write and publish books, and woe to anyone who stood in my way.
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say 'hullo'; Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do. How's the world a-usin' you?
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.
I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.
Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?
Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.
Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.
He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.
If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.