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"Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own."
"What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief."
"My grief lies onward, and my joy behind."
"Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them."
"Verily, I swear, it 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."
"Patch grief with proverbs."
"I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown."
"To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief."
"The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy."
"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."
"Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form"
"Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit."
"The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion."
"When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended."
"But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air and agony with words."
"Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate."
"What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one."
"Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell."
"None can cure their harms by wailing them."
"Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit."
