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. . . SORROW see "UNHAPPINESS" for related links see "DEATH" for related links see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links Sorrow is invited frequently, pleasure rarely; pain cometh of itself, delight must be purchased; grief is unmixed, but joy wanteth not its alloy of bitterness. As the soundest health is less perceived than the lightest malady, so the highest joy toucheth us less deep than the smallest sorrow. --Akhenaton (fl. 14th cent. B.C.) King of Egypt [13531336 B.C.]. One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose. --Jean [-Marie-Lucien-Pierre] Anouilh (19101987) French playwright. _Cecile_ [1949] If the misery of others leaves you indifferent and with no feeling of sorrow, then you cannot be called a human being. --Jimmy Carter (1924 ) American Democratic statesman, President [19771981]. _Keeping Faith_ [1982] . . . Nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.) --Dante Alighieri (12651321) Italian poet, literary theorist, and moral philosopher. _La dinina commedia_ (The Divine Comedy) [c. 13101321]"Inferno" 'Yes,' he thought, 'between grief and nothing I will take grief.' --William Faulkner (18971962) American novelist. _The Wild Palms_ [1939] There is not so much comfort in the having of children as there is sorrow in parting with them. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. _Gnomologia_ [1732] We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. --Kahlil Gibran (18831931) Lebanese poet. In _The Book of Positive Quotations_, {comp. by John Cook}, p. 354 [2007]. - If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, 'It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see, 'It is, but it hadn't ought to be.' --[Francis] Bret Harte (18361902) American author. "Mrs. Judge Jenkins" _East and West Poems_ [1871] & note: For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!' --John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) American poet. "Maud Miller" [1854] - If you suffer, thank God! it is a sure sign that you are alive. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." _The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923] Grief is a species of idleness. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Letter to Mrs Thrale [17 March 1773]. The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. --Walter Savage Landor (17751864) English poet. - Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Hyperion_ [1839] Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "The Rainy Day" _Ballads and Other Poems_ [1841] If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "Table-Talk" _Driftwood_ [1857] - When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. --Henri Nouwen (19321996) Dutch Catholic priest and writer. A sorrow that's shared is but half a trouble, but a joy that's shared is a joy made double. --John Ray (16271705) English naturalist and botanist. _A Collection of English Proverbs_ [1670] Cares are often more difficult to thrown off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow upon it. --Jean Paul Richter (17631825) German novelist Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. _The Conquest of Happiness_ [1930] - When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_ [1601] ROMEO: Parting is such sweet sorrow --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Romeo and Juliet_ [15951596] - There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. --Logan Pearsall Smith (18651946) American-born man of letters. _Afterthoughts_ [1931] "Life and Human Nature" I am sick of the solace of sorrow, And fear what the prophets foretold; I am tired of the tears of tomorrow, And wish that things were as of old; I have felt of the force of the fetters, I have drunk of the draught that embitters, And all is not golden that glitters, And not all that glitters is gold. --Algernon Charles Swinburne (18371909) English poet. The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. --Horace Walpole (17171797) English writer and connoisseur. _Letters_ "To the Countess of Upper Ossory" [16 August 1776] We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. --John Webster (c.1580c.1625) English dramatist. _The White Devil_ [1612] Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (18501919) American author and poet. "Solitude" ----- dolorous [DOH-luh-ruhs], adjective: Marked by, causing, or expressing grief or sorrow. plaintive [PLAYN-tiv], adjective: Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. Ex.: Meanwhile Jack Byron's plight in France was becoming desperate and his letters to his sister increasingly plaintive. --Phyllis Grosskurth, "Byron: The Flawed Angel"  . . see: "THE BODY" see: "NOISE" see "MUSIC" for other related links A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love. --Jean de La Bruyθre (16451696) French essayist and moralist. ----- cacophony [kuh-KAH-fuh-nee], noun: 1. Harsh or discordant sound; dissonance. 2. The use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition. canorous [kuh-NOR-uhs], adjective: Richly melodious; pleasant sounding; musical. Ex.: But birds that are canorous and whose notes we most commend, are of little throats, and short necks, as Nightingales, Finches, Linnets, Canary birds and Larks. --Sir Thomas Browne, _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_ caterwaul [KAT-uhr-wawl], intransitive verb: 1. To make a harsh cry. 2. To have a noisy argument. 3. A shrill, discordant sound. clarion [KLAIR-ee-uhn], noun: 1. A kind of trumpet having a clear and shrill note. 2. The sound of this instrument or a sound similar to it. 3. Sounding like the clarion; loud and clear. euphonious [yoo-FOH-nee-uhs], adjective: Pleasing or sweet in sound; smooth-sounding. Ex,: She combines alliteration and deft word choices with the grace of an oral storyteller, creating euphonious and precise sentences that are perfect for reading aloud. --Amy L. Cohn, "Children's Books," _New York Times_ [10 March 1991] sonorous [suh-NOR-uhs], adjective: 1. Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals. 2. Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice. 3. Yielding sound; characterized by sound; as, the vowels are sonorous. 4. Impressive in sound; high-sounding. sough (noun) [sκf (or sau)] A pleasant rushing or whispering sound such as that made by wind on leaves or the surf. susurrous (adjective) [sκ-'su-rκs] Pertaining to a susurrus (whispering sound), having or similar to whispering or rustling sounds. timbre (noun) The combination of qualities of a sound that distinguishes it from other sounds of the same pitch and volume. Synonyms: tone, quality tintinnabulation [tin-tih-nab-yuh-LAY-shuhn], noun: A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells. ;void(0)) SOUTH (THE AMERICAN) . . see "PLACES" for related links "Dixie" comes from the ten-dollar notes issued by the Citizens' Bank in bilingual Louisiana before the Civil War and bearing the French word "dix", ten, on the reverse side. Soon New Orleans, then Louisiana and the entire South were called 'The land of Dixie,' and later "Dixieland" and "Dixie". The word became immensely popular with the song 'Dixie' (whose actual title is 'Dixie's Land.') --Stuart Berg Flexner _I Hear America Talking_ [1976] - Way down upon de Swanee ribber, Far, far away, Dere's where my heart is turning ebber, Dere's where the old folks stay. --Stephen Collins Foster (18261864) American composer. "Old Folks at Home" [1851] In the South the [Civil] war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Life on the Mississippi_ [1883] - THINGS YOU'LL HEAR ONLY IN THE SOUTH Exclamations... "Well, knock me down and steal muh teeth!" "Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit." Threats... "I'll slap you so hard, your clothes will be outta style." "Don't you be makin' me open a can o' whoop-ass on ya!" Good Things/Compliments... "If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it." "Gooder than grits." The Weather... "It's so dry, the trees are bribing the dogs." "It's been hotter'n a goat's butt in a pepper patch." Wintery roads are said to be "slicker than otter snot." Descriptions... A bothersome person is "like a booger that you can't thump off." If something is hard to do, it's "like trying to herd cats." He ran "like his feet was on fire and his ass was a-catchin." Any insulting statement is always followed by "bless his/her heart." ----- austral (adj.) ['a-strκl] Of, pertaining to, or coming from the south. A word for "southern" on a somewhat higher plane: "austral winds", "austral climes". ;void(0)) SOUTH CAROLINA . . see "PLACES" for related links South Carolina is too small for a republic, and too large for an insane asylum. --James L. Petigru (17891863) American lawyer and politician. ;void(0)) SOUTH DAKOTA . . see "PLACES" for related links Photograph: Mount Rushmore. Courtesy of Robin Stevens and published pursuant to Creative Commons http://hex.oucs.ox.ac.uk/~rejs/holidays/rockies2002/photos.html I guess it's the physical and cultural remoteness of South Dakota that compels everyone to memorize almost every South Dakotan who has left the state and received some recognition. As a child I would pour over magazines and newspapers, looking for some sign that the rest of the world knew we existed. --Tom Brokaw (1940 ) American television journalist. Quoted in John Milton _South Dakota: A Bicentennial History_ [1977]. A part of hell with the fires burnt out. --George Armstrong Custer (18391876) American cavalry officer. I was not prepared for the Bad Lands. They deserve this name. They are like the work of an evil child. Such a place the Fallen Angels might have built as a spite to Heaven, dry and sharp, desolate and dangerous, and for me filled with foreboding. A sense comes from it that it does not like or welcome humans. --John Steinbeck (19021968) American novelist. _Travels With Charley_ [1962] - Issued by the South Dakota Tourism Bureau to ALL visitors: 1) Don't order filet mignon or pasta primavera at Al's Oasis. It's a diner. They serve breakfast 24 hours a day. Let them cook something they know. If you upset the ladies in the kitchen they'll kick your ass. 2) Don't laugh at the names of our little towns (Wall, Murdo, etc.) or we will just have to kick your ass. 3) Don't order a bottle or a can of soda here. Here it's called Pop. Accept it. Doing otherwise can lead to an ass kicking. 4) We know our heritage. Most of us are more literate than you. We are also better educated and generally a lot nicer. Don't refer to us as a bunch of hicks or we'll kick your ass. 5) We have plenty of business sense. You have to make a living here. Naturally, we do sometimes have small lapses in judgment from time to time, but we are not dumb enough to let someone move to our state in order to run for the Senate. If someone tried to do that, we would kick her ass. 6) Don't laugh at our giant fiberglass cows and our turtles made out of car parts. Anything that inspires tourists to buy 50,000 postcards can't be bad. And in Rapid City don't point at the genitalia on the giant plastic dinosaur or we'll kick your ass. 7) We are fully aware of how cold it gets here in the winter, so shut the hell up. Just spend your money and get the hell out of here or we'll kick your ass. 8) Don't order the vegetarian special at the local diner. Everyone will instantly know that you're a tourist. Eat your steak well-done like God intended and have some potatoes with that, for heaven's sake! Also, don't ask what a hot dish is or we'll kick your ass. 9) Don't try to fake a Dakota accent. We don't have an accent. Do NOT mention the movie "Fargo" because that WASN'T us. That will incite a riot and you will get your ass kicked. 10) Don't talk about how much better things are at home because we know better. Many of us have visited big-city hell-holes like Detroit, New York, and Minneapolis, and we have the scars to prove it. If you don't like it here, Interstate 90 is ready when you are. Move your ass on home before it gets kicked. 11) Don't complain that South Dakota is flat and that there aren't enough trees. If you whine about OUR scenic beauty we'll kick your ass all the way back to Milwaukee. 12) Don't ridicule our mannerisms. We only speak when spoken to. We hold doors open for others. We offer our seats to old folks because such things are expected of civilized people. Behave yourselves around our sweet, little gray-haired grandmothers or they will kick some manners into your ass just like they did ours. 13) So you think we're quaint or losers because most of us live on the prairie? That's because we have enough sense to not live in filthy, smelly, crime-infested cesspools like New York or LA. Make fun of our fresh air and we'll kick your ass. 14) Writing it "Sue Falls" is NOT a joke. Your ass will be kicked. 15) Last, but not least, DO NOT DARE to come out here and tell us how the prairie should "go back to the buffalo." This will get your ass shot (right after it is kicked). Just mention this once and you will go home in a pine box. Minus your ass. - ;void(0)) SOUTH KOREA . . see: "KOREAN WAR" see "PLACES" for other related links Photograph: Korean DMZ - [ . . . ] Nonetheless, the urge to unite with their northern brethren to step across the real DMZ is deeply rooted in the South. "This country was unified for 13 centuries before 1945, when it was divided as an expedient by the United States to prevent it from being entirely taken over by the Soviet Union," says Don Oberdorfer, author of The Two Koreas. In the waning days of World War II, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and occupied Korea, annexed by Japan in 1910. Under a hasty agreement, Korea was partitioned at the 38th parallel: the northern part of the peninsula came under Soviet control; the southern region, including Seoul, came under the aegis of the United States. The Soviets and Americans withdrew by 1950, leaving behind two bitterly opposed regimes: the Communist North led by Kim Il Sung, a young guerrilla leader who had fought the Japanese, and the southern peninsula, under an aging, U.S.-backed patrician, Syngman Rhee, who had been elected president by an assembly. Then, on June 25, 1950, North Korean tanks and troops poured across the 38th parallel, capturing Seoul within three days. President Harry Truman appointed Gen. Douglas MacArthur, hero of the war against Japan (and Allied commander of the seven-year occupation of Japan that followed its defeat), as commander of a U.S.-led force of United Nations troops, to roll back the North Korean invasion. In a spectacular counterattack in September, MacArthur's forces staged an amphibious landing at Inchon, on the western coast not far from Seoul. By October, the North Korean Army was routed and Pyongyang taken. But when U.N. forces neared the Yalu River, marking the Korea-China border, Chinese troops unleashed a massive offensive, conquering northern Korea and, byJanuary 1951, Seoul. In April, after acrimonious disputes over military strategy, Truman fired MacArthur, who wanted the option of using nuclear bombs against China, and replaced him with Lt. Gen. Matthew Ridgway. The war continued without either side gaining decisive advantage. Dwight Eisenhower broke the bloody stalemate. Elected president in November 1952 after making a campaign pledge to "go to Korea," Ike indeed went there, before his inauguration. Bundled up in a heavy jacket, fur-lined hat and thermal boots, "Eisenhower did what he had done so often during World War II," wrote biographer Stephen Ambrose. "He studied an artillery duel with his binoculars, chatted with the troops, ate outdoor meals from a mess kit ...." Eisenhower decided the war was unwinnable and should be quickly ended on honorable terms. He recognized that North Korea would exist as a separate nation and called for an armistice. Losses on either side of the newly drawn DMZ were appalling. An estimated 1,000,000 Chinese and 600,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed or wounded. The figure for U.N. troops was about 300,000, more than two-thirds of them South Koreans. Some 37,000 Americans were killed or missing, and another 103,000 wounded. Civilian casualties were even higher. About four million Koreans, nearly one tenth of the whole peninsula's population, were killed or wounded, and another five million turned into refugees. [ . . . ] --Jonathan Kandell "Korea: A House Divided" _Smithsonian_ [July 2003] - - I was . . . overwhelmed by the amazing stink of kimchi, the garlic and hot-pepper sauerkraut that's breakfast, lunch and dinner in Korea. Its odor rises from this nation of 40 million in a miasma of eyeglass-fogging kimchi breath, throat-searing kimchi burps and terrible, pants-splitting kimchi farts. . . . The Koreans are . . perfectly capable of a three- hour lunch, and so are Giannini and I. We ordered dozens of bowls of pickles, garlics, red peppers and hot sauces and dozens of plates of spiced fish and vegetables and great big bottles of OB beer and mixed it all with kimchi so strong it would have sent a Mexican screaming from the room with tongue in flames. By the time we drove, weaving, back to Seoul, you could have used our breath to clean your oven. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947 ) American political satirist. _Holidays in Hell_ [1988], "Seoul Brothers" -  SOUTH POLE . . see "DISCOVERY" for related links see "PLACES" for related links Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised... There are many reasons which send men to the Poles, and the Intellectual Force uses them all. But the desire for knowledge for its own sake is the one which really counts and there is no field for the collection of knowledge which at the present time can be compared to the Antarctic. Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore. If you are a brave man you will do nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have need to prove their bravery. Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use ?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which does not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg. --Apsley Cherry-Garrard (18861959) British polar explorer. Great God! this is an awful place. --Robert Falcon Scott (18681912) English polar explorer. "Men Wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success." --Ernest Shackleton (18741922) British Antarctic explorer who attempted to reach the South Pole. (Newspaper announcement before his Endurance Expedition.) ;void(0)) SOUTH SEA . . see "PLACES" for related links Very pretty to look at, but I didn't want to stay, not one bit. Papeete is a poor sort of place, mostly Chinese, native in European clothes, and fat...I never want to _stay_ in the Tropics. There is a sort of sickliness about them, smell of cocoa-nut oil sort of palm-tree, reptile nausea...These are supposed to be earthly paradises: these South Sea Isles. You can have 'em. --D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (18851930) English novelist and poet. 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