"Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love."
"Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves."
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Source: The Golden Speech, 1601, in 'The Journals of All the Parliaments During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth'... Collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1682) p. 659
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