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The affectionate heart of my aunt, Catherine Porten, bewailed a sister and a friend; but my poor father was inconsolable, and the transport of grief seemed to threaten his life or his reason.
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You have summoned me in my weakness; you must sustain me by your strength.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart
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A gloomy sensation of agonising, everlasting solitude and remoteness, took conscious form in his soul.
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Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.
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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change
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much of grief is blunted and relaxed when the body is permeated by calm, like the sea in fine weather
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when people see their friends' houses on fire they put it out as quickly and energetically as they can, but when their souls are on fire they themselves bring fuel
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This it must be; and there is no means of escaping from tribulation and sorrow, except to bear them patiently.
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Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing--a childless mother.