Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 56. Compare Psalm 30:5 (KJV): "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."
The Fireside, Stanza 31, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
This World is all a fleeting Show.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
"Soul Blindness", as quoted Our Woman Workers: Biographical Sketches of Women Eminent in the Universalist Church for Literary, Philanthropic and Christian Work (1881) by E. R. Hanson.
Context: How near another's heart we oft may stand,
Yet all unknowing what we fain would know
Its heights of joy, its depths of bitter woe,
As, wrecked upon some desert island's strand,
They watch our white sails near and nearer grow;
Then we, who for their rescue death would dare,
Unheeding pass, and leave them to despair.
Eileen Aroon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
VI. 180–185 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald); Odysseus to Nausicaa.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
A Prayer for Indifference, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
"De chiens, d'oyseaulx, d'armes, d'amous,"
Chascun le dit a la vollee,
"Pour une joye cent doulours."
Source: Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461), Line 622.
The Exile's Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Jane Scroop (her lament for Philip Sparrow) (likely published c. 1509), Lines 64-70.
“Woe to the flesh which depends upon the soul, woe to the soul which depends upon the flesh!”
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Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)
