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• Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

  Rita Schiano

  Grief, Healing, Losing A Loved One

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• Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Strength, Teaching, Atheism

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

  Jean Anouilh

  Strength, Grief, Choices

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

  Billy Graham

  Hurt, Condolences, Thinking

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• There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Grief, Condolences

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• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Happiness, Depression, Grief

  A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

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• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

  Edward Young

  Life, Death, Solitude

  The Revenge act 4 (1721) See Nixon 10; Petronius 2

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• If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Relationship, Romantic

  "Fictional character: Christopher Robin". "Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

  Walter Scott

  Death, Grief, Condolences

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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• I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Looking For Sympathy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

  Ben Okri

  Love, Inspirational, Condolences

  "Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2015.

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• Where there is great love there are always miracles.

  Willa Cather

  Love, Valentines Day, Peace

  "Death Comes for the Archbishop". Book by Willa Cather, 1927.

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• The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Intelligence, Insufficiency

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

  Jesse Jackson

  Change, Sweat, Tears

  "The preacher comes to town" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

  Anatole France

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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• Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

  George W. Norris

  Men, Prejudice, Interest

  George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press

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• One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Pleasure, Our Thoughts

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Condolences

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• He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Condolences, Losing A Loved One, Angel

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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• He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Condolences, Dark, Tears

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• O, I have suffered
  With those that I saw suffer!

  William Shakespeare

  Suffering, Saws, Pity

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3813, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

  Helmut Kohl

  People, Political, United

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• The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

  Goldwin Smith

  Party, Humanity, Novelists

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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