One fire burns out another's burning,

One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 2.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): Come, ye Disconsolate.

In misery's darkest cavern known,

His useful care was ever nigh

Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,

And lonely want retir'd to die.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Verses on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet. Stanza 5.

O woman! in our hours of ease

Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,

And variable as the shade

By the light quivering aspen made;

When pain and anguish wring the brow,

A ministering angel thou!

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Marmion. Canto vi. Stanza 30.