"Tears are the silent language of grief."
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"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
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"Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet."
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"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."
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"Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you."
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"Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality."
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"We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human."
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"Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow."
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"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."
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"Wherever you are you will always be in my heart."
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"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
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"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."
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"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him."
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"To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."
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"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
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"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
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"When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun."
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"I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn."
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"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
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