Let each recall his own woes. [ Ovid ]

What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose. [ Homer ]

The wind breath'd soft a lover's sigh,
And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die
With breathless pause between,
O who, with speech of war and woes,
Would wish to break the soft repose
Of such enchanting scene! [ Scott ]

A world of woes despatched in little space. [ Dryden ]

Oh! thou gentle scene
Of Sweet repose; where by the oblivious draught
Of each sad toilsome day to peace restor'd.
Unhappy mortals lose their woes awhile. [ Thomson ]

Windy attorneys to their client woes,
Airy succeeders of intestate joys,
Poor breathing orators of miseries!
Let them have scope: though what they do impart
Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. [ William Shakespeare ]

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel. [ Young ]

The grateful tear that streams for others' woes. [ Akenside ]

What avails it that indulgent Heaven
From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
If we, ingenious to torment ourselves.
Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
Enjoy the present; nor with needless cares
Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
Serene, and master of yourself, prepare
For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven. [ Armstrong ]

The graceful tear that streams for others' woes. [ Akenside ]

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes. [ Lowell ]

Tears are due to misfortune, and mortal woes touch the heart. [ Virgil ]

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers. [ Sophocles ]

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. [ Dryden ]

Wise men never sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail. [ William Shakespeare ]

When we our betters see bearing our woes, we scarcely think our miseries our foes. [ William Shakespeare ]

My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Tell me, when shall these weary woes have end? or shall their ruthless torment never cease? [ Spenser ]

We know there oft is found an avarice in grief; and the war eye of sorrow loves to gaze upon its secret hoard of treasured woes, and pine in solitude. [ William Mason ]

The physical plagues and the calamities of human nature have rendered society necessary. Society has added to the evils of nature; the imperfections of society have created the necessity for government, and government adds still further to the woes of society: this is the whole history of humanity. [ Chamfort ]

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]