Search in folklore: sorrow

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Reading books removes sorrows from the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about books, heart

Traditional Wexford Curse

May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you...

Spells and incantations British

He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about books, heart

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

A joyous evening often leads to a sorrowful morning.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

The remembrance of past sorrows is joyful.

Proverbs and old sayings British about past

Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.

Proverbs and old sayings

Pleasures are shallow, sorrows deep.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness

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

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

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

Only the spoon knows the pot's sorrows.

Proverbs and old sayings

Little sorrows are loud, great ones silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A glad heart seldom sighs, but a sorrowful mouth often laughs.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heart

No choice is ever wholly unregretted, each brings more joy and more sorrow than we can foresee.

Proverbs and old sayings about joy, sadness

A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning.

Proverbs and old sayings English

If you sow arrows, you will reap sorrows.

Proverbs and old sayings

A married man has many sorrows -- an unmarried man has one more.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about man

Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.

Proverbs and old sayings French about money