"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver."
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"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."
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"And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow."
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"No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up."
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"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
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"Grief makes one hour ten."
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"Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone."
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"In life there is not time to grieve long."
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"He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil."
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"It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss."
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"What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?"
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"To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve."
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"Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it."
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"Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you."
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"Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart."
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"The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others."
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"You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?"
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"I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size."
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"Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place."
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"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude."
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