"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."
"we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings."
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Source: Speech to Parliament, 1586, in William Camden 'Annales rerum anglicanum' (1615) bk. 3
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