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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be
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Once I wished not to live, but the faculty of life seems to have sprung up in me again, from under the crushing foot of heavy grief.
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In our sorrow we see the rough side of the stuff; in our joys the smooth; and who shall say that when the taffeta is turned the most silk may not be in the sorrows?
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It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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A man must understand evil and be acquainted with sorrow before he can write himself an optimist and expect others to believe that he has reason for the faith that is in him.
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Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·December 24, 1850
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Surely civilization is old enough, surely mankind is mature enough so that we ought in our own lifetime to find a way to permanent peace.
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Sorrow purifies and deepens the soul, and the extremity of sorrow is the prelude to Truth.
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In time, the most stubborn grief will leave us, if in prudence we do not leave that first.
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This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as it were to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.