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For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, l. 89-92, Lyrical Ballads (1798).)
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There they are
drooping over the breakfast plates,
angel-like,
folding in their sad wing,
animal sad....
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Fury of Cocks.")
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A great world leader is gone. Liberty loving people around the globe are sad tonight. We are strengthened in the thought of President Roosevelt's work for little people everywhere.
(Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), U.S. president. "Statement, Death of FDR," LBJ Library, "Speech Collection," (April 12, 1945).
Comments on death of FDR.)
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Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."
(Anne Frank (1929-1945), German Jewish refugee, diarist. The Diary of a Young Girl, entry for May 22, 1944 (1947, trans. 1952).)
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Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."
(Anne Frank (1929-1945), German Jewish refugee, diarist. The Diary of a Young Girl, entry for May 22, 1944 (1947, trans. 1952).)
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How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts—I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if a stranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious—insolent & whimsical I must appear!—one moment flighty and half mad,—the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
(Frances Burney (1752-1840), British author. The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, vol. 1, p. 61, journal entry, 1769, ed. Lars E. Troide, Oxford University Press (1988).)
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How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts—I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if a stranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious—insolent & whimsical I must appear!—one moment flighty and half mad,—the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
(Frances Burney (1752-1840), British author. The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, vol. 1, p. 61, journal entry, 1769, ed. Lars E. Troide, Oxford University Press (1988).)
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Come near; I would, before my time to go,
Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time.")
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