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Go ask thine aching heart, when sorrow from a thousand causes wounds it, go, ask thy sickened self when every medicine fails, whether this be the case or not?
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “Go ask thine aching heart, when sorrow from a thousand causes wounds it, go, ask thy sickened self when every medicine…”
Editor's note · Context
Paine encourages introspection on the nature of sorrow and the failure of remedies in times of distress.
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