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"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."
"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."
"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."
"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light."
"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."
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"Grief does not change you. It reveals you."
"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
"I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!"
"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."
"There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion."
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