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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Increase my honor and comfort me again.

Men may die, but the fabrics of our free institutions remain unshaken.

The wisdom of our fathers, foreseeing even the most dire possibilities, made sure that the Government should never be imperiled because of the uncertainty of human life.

Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.

In our sorrow we see the rough side of the stuff; in our joys the smooth; and who shall say that when the taffeta is turned the most silk may not be in the sorrows?

Once I wished not to live, but the faculty of life seems to have sprung up in me again, from under the crushing foot of heavy grief.

A man must understand evil and be acquainted with sorrow before he can write himself an optimist and expect others to believe that he has reason for the faith that is in him.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

To the man who is penetrated with true principles, the shortest, the most common hint is a sufficient memorial to keep him free of sorrow and fear.

True magnanimity consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

much of grief is blunted and relaxed when the body is permeated by calm, like the sea in fine weather

Even grief, that passion to which the virtuous and tender mind is particularly subject, will be obviated or alleviated by the same thoughts.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.

In time, the most stubborn grief will leave us, if in prudence we do not leave that first.

One temptation or sorrow passeth, and another cometh; and always we shall have somewhat to suffer

This it must be; and there is no means of escaping from tribulation and sorrow, except to bear them patiently.

Why may I not rest me from this restlessness and sleep from this wide waking?