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| My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul | | William Shakespeare | |
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| Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest | | Samuel Johnson | |
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| Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. | | Robert Frost | |
| She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. | | George Eliot | |
| Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. | | Ovid | |
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| Tears are the silent language of grief | | Voltaire | |
| That grief is light which can take counsel. | | Seneca | |
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| The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief | | William Shakespeare | |
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| Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness | | Herman Melville | |
| Waste not fresh tears over old griefs | | Euripides | |
| What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. | | Ovid | |
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