.. Nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Give him strong drink until he wink, That's sinking in despair; An' liquor guid to fire his bluid, That's prest wi' grief an' care, There let him house and deep carouse, Wi' bumpers flowing o'er, Till he forgets his loves or debts, An' minds his griefs no
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What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.
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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.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
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This grief is crowned with consolation.
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?
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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way.
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Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
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Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
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Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you Submit to your grief your time for joy will come, believe me.
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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
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For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
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Dark tree! Still sad when others' grief is fled, The only constant mourner o'er the dead.
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
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The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Lo! Darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair It has mantled a world.
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'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
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My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!
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