Sorrows humanize our race;
More quotes by Jean Ingelow
Is there never a chink in the world above
Where they listen for words from below?
There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.
If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
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Life could not be lived wet, whether it be in rain or tears.
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Every joy that some experience is paid for by the sorrow of others.
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