"Who never ate his bread in sorrow,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
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“I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.”
“Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.”