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woe
«A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.»
«Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
baiting, balm, high and low, knot, poor man, prisoner, release, The Prisoner, woe
«In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Writing
| Keywords:
barriers, formidable, pleases, raises, woe
«Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul.»
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
| Keywords:
circles, circumference, graduating, open sesame, permeated, permeates, pervade, pervaded, pervades, sesame, talisman, The Center, The Talisman, weal, woe
«Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?»
«Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Death and dying,
Misery,
Sin,
World
| Keywords:
harbinger, woe
«Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat / Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, / That all was lost.»
«If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go, You can never wipe off the tears of woe»