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 | "Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to
the living, and the dead know it not." | |
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Xenophon
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| "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy
you must have somebody to divide it with." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Grief drives men to serious reflection, sharpens the understanding
and softens the heart." | |
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John Adams
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| "Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops
the powers of the mind." | |
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Marcel Proust
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| "If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief. ?Si vis
me flere, dolendum est Primum ipsi tibi" | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "It is foolish to tear one"s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be
made less with baldness." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning,
and the noontide night." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastised by sabler tints of
woe." | |
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Thomas Gray
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| "The only cure for grief is action." | |
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George Henry Lewes
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| "Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Married in
haste, we may repent at leisure." | |
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William Congreve
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| "Truly, it is in the 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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Meister Eckhart
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| "You can"t prevent birds of sorrow flying over your head, but you can
stop them building nests in your hair." | |
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