"We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead."
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"Do not mourn the dead with the belly."
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"Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are."
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"They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness."
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"Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince."
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"In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself."
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"Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!"
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"Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night."
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"Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God."
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"The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning."
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"It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this."
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"Marry a widdow before she leave mourning."
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"The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead."
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"I suppose while we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil; and while he has left us, others are coming into the world at the same time, and probably in this our territory. There is a continuous change, an ingress of beings into the world and an egress out of it."
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"If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches."
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"The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not the target and destruction are in any way related to the initial event."
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"A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen."
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"Mourning has its place but also its limits."
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"The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning."
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"Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer."
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