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Sorrow may sadden your face but it sharpens your understanding.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sadness, face

With much knowledge there is much sorrow, with much wisdom there is much weeping.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about knowledge, sadness, wisdom

People who drink to drown their sorrows, should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sadness, drinking, people

He that swims in sin will sink in sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about sadness, sin, americans

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about sadness, earth, americans

Patience is the key of joy; but haste is the key to sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings about joy, sadness, patience

Sorrow for the death of a father lasts six months; sorrow for a mother, a year; sorrow for a wife, until another wife; sorrow for a son, forever.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness, wife, death, mother

Sorrow, nobody dies about it.

Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about sadness

One man's happiness is another man's sadness.

Proverbs and old sayings Brazilian about sadness, happiness, man

Much science, much sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings British about science, sadness

Sin is the root of much sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings British about sadness, sin

When it thunders in March, it brings sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings British about sadness

Never lay sorrow to your heart when others lay it to their heels.

Proverbs and old sayings British about sadness, heart

Sorrow is the child of too much joy.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about joy, sadness, children

A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about joy, sadness, day

Happiness has its roots -- sorrow has its womb.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness, sadness

One moment's error becomes a lifetime of sadness.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sadness, error, moment

The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about error, moment, sadness, life

Drinks down your sorrow, but your sorrow returns the morning after.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sadness

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hindred days of sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about moment, anger, day, sadness