Thomas Huxley

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

English Scientist

Alexander Pope

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

English Poet

William Blake

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Jenna Blum

All I'd ever wanted to do in my life was write and publish books, and woe to anyone who stood in my way.

American Writer

Pearl Bailey

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

American Actress

Joseph Conrad

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Polish Novelist

Khalil Gibran

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Lebanese Poet

Buddha

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Leader

Victor Hugo

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

French Author

Francis of Assisi

Italian Saint

Use 'woe' to describe deep sadness or when emphasizing the seriousness of a situation.

Emotional Intensity

'Woe' is more profound than 'sadness' and may sound overly dramatic in casual conversations.

Not Casual

'Woe' suggests serious problems, more than everyday difficulties or minor issues.

Severity of Problems

Woe' can be used abstractly to refer to collective or societal difficulties.

Abstract Use

The interjection 'woe' adds drama or an old-fashioned tone to writing or speaking.

Literary Flair

Use 'woe is me' to express despair or when one feels self-pity or resignation.

Expressing Despair

'Woe' can personify a problem as if it can cause suffering by itself.

Source of Sorrow

Use 'woe' to describe something with a deep, personal impact, affecting an individual's well-being.

Personal Impact

 is to the other a cause of mourning. Whatever is unfortunate in war, is severely so indeed, and whatever, on the contrary, is called good fortune, is a savage and a cruel good fortune, an ungenerous happiness deriving its existence from another's woe. But everyone knows that the movement

Steven Pinker and...

 singing the strophe and antistrophe, telling misbegotten tales of woe. Today's first chorus is entering through the parados, taking their positions in the orchestra at the bottom of the stage. Mario Lopedokia, this is nothing we haven't seen before.

The battle of the Greek...

 Our political leaders seem helpless, insisting on austerity, even as public goods diminish to levels unseen in decades. And this is when they're not succumbing to exclusionary nationalism, blaming our woes on the weak rather than the powerful.

How protest is...

 northern India to seek his help I have four five lumps in my neck I get dizzy sometimes my eyes roll up my neck turns stiff but their woes appear to begin in strikingly similar ways usually at twilight women walking down lonely roads

Indian Exorcist Banishes...

 the tale of woe he had begun over the phone 16 years before. He'd just had surgery on his eyes, he said. He had problems with his side and his legs too, and, oh, he'd lost his teeth in the crash. Did I wish to see him remove them?

In search for the man...

 that nirvana is what arrives when all your woe is behind you, and you have only bliss to look forward to. But he said that would not be nirvana, because your bliss in the present would always be shadowed by the joy from the past.

How the worst moments in...

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Indian Cave Exorcism PIPE...

 fascinating lifestyle of the woe of the leopard unlike their lion cousins leopards are solitary creatures staking out turf about the only time they are by themselves is well I mean what male can

Big Cats: Lifestyles of...

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Exorcism In India PIPE...

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Emotional Intensity

Not Casual

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