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Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it.
Gerald Fordverified·Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon·September 8, 1974
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The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference.
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Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain bitter point, and the heart loses its life for ever.
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The third is, that it is folly to wear one's self out with grief which can avail nothing.
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Now, old age is as it were the playing out of the drama, the full fatigue of which we should shun, especially when we also feel that we have had more than enough of it.
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A man should diffuse joy, but, as much as he can, smother grief.
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Why may I not rest me from this restlessness and sleep from this wide waking?