"The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation."
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"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
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"There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives."
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"Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly."
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"Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb"
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"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself."
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"That grief is light which can take counsel."
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"Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying."
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"It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears."
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"What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering."
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"Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion."
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"Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]"
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"No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it."
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"Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf."
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"It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree."
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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."
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"Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish."
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"There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better."
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"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot."
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"I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once."
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