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• Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

  Will Durant

  Education, Men, Faster

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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  Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

  Alexander Pope

  Helping Others, Woe Is Me, Volunteer

  'The Universal Prayer' (1738)

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• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Birthday, Time

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

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• Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Obedience, Claims, Refuse

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.228, Lulu.com

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• Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Knowing, People

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• In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

  Pierre Corneille

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• Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Equality, And Love, Generations

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• Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

  John Piper

  Sex, Block, Kitchen

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• But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Government, Democracy, Energy

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• Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

  Samuel Daniel

  Love Is, Sickness, Plant

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.105

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• You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.

  John C. McGinley

  Children, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

  Andrew Mason

  Listening, Saint, Description

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• Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

  Juvenal

  Men, Unhappy, Poverty

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• Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

  Luigi Pirandello

  Kings, Pope, Mask

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.36, Luigi Pirandello

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• Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart.

  Arthur James Moore

  Healing, Heart, Government

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• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Death, Knowledge, Science

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1913). “Our Eternity”

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• Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

  Robert Southey

  Mother, Pain, Night

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.322

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• Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth

  Barack Obama

  Witty, Democracies Have, Government

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• The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Causes

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• Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Chance, Reason

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• In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.

  Richard Sibbes

  Book, Wicked, Tragedy

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.186, Titus Books

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• Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.

  Rudolf Hess

  Fear, Spring, Hero

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• Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.

  John Keats

  Gratitude, Heaven, Thrones

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission are acts of love [because] those who proclaim the Gospel participate in the charity of Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Love Is, Redemption, Charity

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• Joy and woe are woven fine,
  A clothing for the soul divine.
  Under every grief and pine
  Runs a joy with silken twine.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  William Blake (1868). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, p.98

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