"Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice."
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"Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you."
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"Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed."
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"Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?"
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"I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child."
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"It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man."
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"Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain."
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"There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation."
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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."
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"The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence."
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"Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest."
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"It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp."
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"What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one."
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"The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life."
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"While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope."
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"It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply."
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"Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise."
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"Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound."
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"Those griefs burn most which gall in secret."
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"Light is that grief which counsel can allay."
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