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Without diversion no joy, with diversion no sadness.
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Every man hath two birth-days: two days, at least, in every year, which set him upon revolving the lapse of time, as it affects his mortal duration.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart
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My saddest and most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets.
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The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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The ostentation of grief is many times more than the grief itself.
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A false and a childish sorrow is appeased with as false and as childish a revenge.
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A wise man gives way to tears in some cases, and cannot avoid them in others.
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Fear proceeds from the same things when absent which occasion grief when present.
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For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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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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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears; and to all these, the consideration of mortality is a certain and adequate remedy.
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An habitual sadness seizes upon the soul, and the faculties are chained to a single object, which can never be contemplated but with hopeless uneasiness.
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What doth care about future events bring thee, save sorrow upon sorrow?