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• When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Lying, Evil, Needs

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• In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.

  Laurie Colwin

  Friendly, Would Be, Tomatoes

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• Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.

  Michael Drayton

  Grief, Sorrow, Comfort

  Michael Drayton (1753). “The Works of Michael Drayton, Esq”, p.358

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• Woe to the Revolution when the day comes, when the people, overburdened by contributions and consumed by abuses, turn to their enemies for salvation!

  Apolinario Mabini

  People, Abuse, Enemy

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• 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? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Country, Men, Soul

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• It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Evil, Would Be

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• Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

  George Crabbe

  Art, Men, Faithful

  George Crabbe, Allan Cunningham (1855). “George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.146

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• The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Christian, Men, Catholic Religion

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• Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation that takes note of heaven's blessedness.

  Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

  Heaven, Doe, Want

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 401), 1895.

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• The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be, bye bye.Now I'm sorrowful,The day is long past.Alas and woe, oh.

  Enya

  Past, Journey, Bye

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• One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

  Ogden Nash

  Wisdom, Bankers, Needs

  Ogden Nash, “Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer”

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• The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Atheism, World, Woven

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• But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

  Euripides

  Gone, Brightness, Hours

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• Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe.

  Jon Hendricks

  Jazz, Trouble, Follow Me

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• Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Passion, Long, Confusion

  Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) (1883). “The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes”

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• We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

  R. C. Sproul

  Light, Woe Is Me, Shadow

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• The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Men, Wish, Tears

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire I, line 90,

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• What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
  Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
  The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
  Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
  The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
  The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
  The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
  The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
  Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail.

  Walter Scott

  Mother, Dream, Morning

  Walter Scott (2017). “Scott's Lady of the Lake”, p.152, Litres

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• No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

  Walter Scott

  Scene, Mortals

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…”, p.636, e-artnow

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• Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Guilt, Deeds

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• My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.

  Philip Sidney

  Issues, Secret, Sound

  Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?

  Herman Melville

  Pain, Men, People

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.208, Herman Melville

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• No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,
  No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,
  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
  Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
  Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
  Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Beauty, Stars, Night

  Erasmus Darwin (1806). “Containing the loves of the plants”, p.165

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• Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Death, Men

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mother, Lasts, Waste

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.71, Univ of California Press

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