“We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.”
Julian of Norwich book Revelations of Divine Love
Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Chapter 1
“Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 63.
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Context: Ah, not to a blaze of light I go,
Nor shouts of a triumph train;
I go down to kiss the dregs of woe,
And drink up the Cup of Pain. And whether a scaffold or crucifix waits
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Context: Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd,
And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield.
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