"Great griefs medicine the less."
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"A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder."
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"A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable."
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"I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop."
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"Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living."
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"Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish."
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"She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love."
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"I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!"
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"No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement."
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"Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain."
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"Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past."
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"I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me."
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"He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars."
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"Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again."
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"What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived"
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"If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad."
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"The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is."
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"I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature."
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"Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates."
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"In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags."
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