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The very thing which is now the cause of thy great grief ought to have brought thee tranquillity.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be

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.

For the fourth time the officer elected by the people and ordained by the Constitution to fill a vacancy so created is called to assume the Executive chair.

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The present moment is the same for all men, and their loss, therefore, is equal, for it is clear that what they lose in death is but a fleeting instant of time.

Tell over next all those you have known, one after the other: think how one buried his fellow, then lay dead himself, to be buried by a third.

Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.

In such cases friendships should be allowed to die out gradually by an intermission of intercourse.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change

Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.

war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master, that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes

The position of the Negro today in America is the tragic but inevitable consequence of centuries of unequal treatment.

Even in the same family the gap is not so great; the wound closes up sooner than we should expect.