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MRS. BROWNING: _Sonnets, Exaggeration._
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O brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly, in a plaintive mood, The holy name of GRIEF!--holy herein, That, by the grief of ONE, came all our good.
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Aeschylus
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
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SHAKS.: _Sonnet 50._
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My grief lies onward and my joy behind.
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Aeschylus
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.
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This grief is crowned with consolation.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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That grief is light which can take counsel.
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Euripides
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
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GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 384.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 362.
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What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?
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Vernon Howard
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Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.
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Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
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Menander
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Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
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Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin
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Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you Submit to your grief -- your time for joy will come, believe me.
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Jim
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Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
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Kahlil Gibran
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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
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Fernandez de Andrada
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For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
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BYRON: _Giaour,_ Line 286.
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Dark tree! still sad when others' grief is fled, The only constant mourner o'er the dead.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.
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Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
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Robert Burns
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The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy
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George W. Bush
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Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.
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Wendell Berry
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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JOAQUIN MILLER: _From Sea to Sea,_ St. 4.
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Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair It has mantled a world.
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Joan Rivers
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Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly -- hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
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William Shakespeare
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'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
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BYRON: _On my Thirty-sixth Year._
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My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!
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Homer
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Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
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Robert Jensen
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People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.
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SHAKS.: _King John,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.
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I am not mad;--I would to heaven I were! For then, 't is like I should forget myself; O, if I could,--what grief should I forget!
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SHAKS.: _Wint. Tale,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.
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What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.
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MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 359.
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Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?
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Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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Sue Grafton
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People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
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Henry Van Dyke
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Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time, with a gift of tears;
Grief, with a glass that ran;
Pleasure, with pain for leaven;
Summer, with flowers that fell;
Remembrance, fallen from heaven,
And madness risen from hel
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Charles Kingsley
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Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
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Michael Dorris
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At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.
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William Shakespeare
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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
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Samuel Johnson
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The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
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Robert
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
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Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
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People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
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MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 67.
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O, loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeons, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me 's extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annul'd, which might in part my grief have e
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POPE: _Ode on St. Cecilia's Day,_ St. 7.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Honore' de Balzac
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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
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Joseph Brodsky
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For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
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BURNS: _Scotch Drink._
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Give him strong drink until he wink, That's sinking in despair; An' liquor guid to fire his bluid, That's prest wi' grief an' care, There let him house and deep carouse, Wi' bumpers flowing o'er, Till he forgets his loves or debts, An' minds his griefs no
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Imgard Schloegl
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...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way.
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Henri Nouwen
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm 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.
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Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
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Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.
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"Between grief and nothing, I will take grief." - Faulkner
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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The only cure for grief is action.
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It is light grief that can take counsel.
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Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.
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Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
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Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
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Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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I???ll fight when needed, revel when there???s an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes?but I won???t let anyone use me against my will.
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For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
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Whoever finds love
beneath hurt and grief
disappears into emptiness
with a thousand new disguises.
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Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.
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Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
Grief not, rather find,
Strength in what remains behind,
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Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
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"Good grief! They sound like a bunch of school boys at recess!" -Roy
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What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. F
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"This grief is crowned with consolation." -- Shakespeare
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"Grief is a species of idleness." -- Johnson
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"Just once I want to make it through a crisis with a minimum of grief"
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When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
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"In my grief, do I know what I'm doing?" -- Klinger
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