Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.