Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
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We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
Charles Reade
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
Greta Garbo
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrows and double our joys.
Barry C. Forbes
Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.
Phil Gramm
It's not a particularly unselfish thing that we've done. The girls have brought so many more joys than we expected.
Maudie Samiee
Joy's been an outstanding addition to our program. Joy will be an outstanding coach for Hurley basketball, and we have such an outstanding program. We're already organized down to the fourth grade again.
Dave Meade
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Willa Cather
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
Jewish Proverb
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Robert Lynd
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
Alphonse De Lamartine
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Or, pale dispensers of my Joys and Pains, holding the doors of Heaven and of Hell.
Laurence Hope
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren G. Harding
The same joys, the same fears.
Maudie Samiee
The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy. [Commenting on the unemployment situation in Detroit].
Howard Pyle
It was one of his real joys. He was constantly working towards protecting them.
Larry Swanson
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
Eugene Field
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
Oliver Stone
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