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Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 1)
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 1)
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O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin
Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,
The holy name of Grief--holy herein,
That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Sonnets--Exaggeration
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Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not
More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--
That is light grieving!
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Tears
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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
[Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac
molliat.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Epistles (IV, 5)
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Were floods of tears to be unloosed
In tribute to my grief,
The doves of Noah ne'er had roost
Nor found an olive-leaf.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Epistles (IV, 5)
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 384)
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Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro,
In all the raging impotence of woe.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. XXII, l. 526), (Pope's translation)
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so
beloved?
[Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus
Tam cari capitis?]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (I, 24, 1)
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On me, on me
Time and change can heap no more!
The painful past with blighting grief
Hath left my heart a withered leaf.
Time and change can do no more.
Author: Richard Hengist Horne
Source: Dirge
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Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not
exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has
received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (XIII, 11)
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The only cure for grief is action.
Author: George Henry Lewes
Source: The Spanish Drama--Life of Lope De Vega (ch. II)
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Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief
which does not speak!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Hyperion (bk. II, ch. II)
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
[Lat., Illa dolet vere qui sine teste dolet.]
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (I, 34, 4)
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There is a solemn luxury in grief.
Author: William Mason
Source: The English Garden (l. 596)
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If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many
would be pitied who are now envied!
[It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno
Si leggesse in fronte scritto,
Quanti mai, che invidia fanno,
Ci farebbero pieta!]
Author: Metastasio (pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro)
Source: Giuseppe Riconosciuto (I)
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What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid?
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 362)
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Great, good, and just, could I but rate
My grief with thy too rigid fate,
I'd weep the world in such a strain
As it should deluge once again;
But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies
More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes,
I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds
And write thy epitaph in blood and wounds.
Author: James Grahame, First Marquis of Montrose
Source: on Charles I
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is
forced to multiply its strength.
[Lat., Strangulat inclusus dolor, atque exaestuat intus,
Cogitur et vires multiplicare suas.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Tristium (V, 1, 63)
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Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Hippolytus (607)
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That grief is light which can take counsel.
[Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Medea (I, 55)
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Great grief does not of itself put an end itself.
[Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Troades (786)
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If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,
Thou robb'st me of a moiety.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Countess of Rossillion at III, ii)
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This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings
forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an onion that
should water this sorrow.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Enobarbus at I, ii)
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O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,
And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,
Have written strange defeatures in my face.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Egeon at V, i)
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Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: None
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Author: Euripides
Source: None
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
Author: George Herbert
Source: None
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The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
Author: J O'Rourke
Source: None
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Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: None
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Author: Henry Ford
Source: None
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Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunder
and made them vibrate.. empathic in pain.
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Author: Xenophon
Source: None
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When we hear oxymoron
we think that those
who eat oxen become morons
.. their brains occluded
by animal fat
.. cannot receive oxygen
When we hear Oxfam
we think famine..
that those who promote
oxeating
create famine.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
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FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH
Fire has left the hearth
Nautilus climbed from shell
Perfume flowed from bottle
Prisoner gone from cell
Butterfly flutterbied cocoon
nor hand restrained by glove
Jesus away from manger
Cage left by Spirit Dove.
Sparklings soared away from wand.
Chick's egg become the bird.
Omkar sung from out the throat
Violin's notes now heard.
Buddhist temple pine cone
tabernacle'd godlet seed
Shattered that it might manifest
thousand forests of fir tree
Eternal snow of mountain top
now nurses meadow flowers.
Shining never held by sun
relentless melts ice towers.
Love has left its
spring the heart
Is now a liquid pond
Host stolen from the chalice
consumed in mouth of God
Starlight abandoned star
a billion years ago
Left that tonight you
might
have its sight
and know
Know Love is forever
no drop of God ever dies
Lover not bound by form of love
God's bodies are not God's souls
(to his wife and children
on the death of Robert S)
(Baba Hari Das: is the author
of love is more powerful than
lover for love is not bound by
form).
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Source: None
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Author: Cicero
Source: None
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: None
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. -Alphonse de Lamartine.
Author: Alphonse De Lamartine
Source: None
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: None
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Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. -David Searls.
Author: David Searls
Source: None
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