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The wisdom of our fathers, foreseeing even the most dire possibilities, made sure that the Government should never be imperiled because of the uncertainty of human life.
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Men may die, but the fabrics of our free institutions remain unshaken.
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Once I wished not to live, but the faculty of life seems to have sprung up in me again, from under the crushing foot of heavy grief.
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In our sorrow we see the rough side of the stuff; in our joys the smooth; and who shall say that when the taffeta is turned the most silk may not be in the sorrows?
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A man must understand evil and be acquainted with sorrow before he can write himself an optimist and expect others to believe that he has reason for the faith that is in him.
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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In time, the most stubborn grief will leave us, if in prudence we do not leave that first.
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To the man who is penetrated with true principles, the shortest, the most common hint is a sufficient memorial to keep him free of sorrow and fear.
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Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.
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True magnanimity consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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much of grief is blunted and relaxed when the body is permeated by calm, like the sea in fine weather
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Even grief, that passion to which the virtuous and tender mind is particularly subject, will be obviated or alleviated by the same thoughts.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.
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Native deformity cannot be rectified, a dead friend cannot return, and the hours of youth trifled away in folly, or lost in sickness, cannot be restored.
Samuel Johnsonverified·The Rambler No. 52, in The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2·September 15, 1750
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This it must be; and there is no means of escaping from tribulation and sorrow, except to bear them patiently.
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One temptation or sorrow passeth, and another cometh; and always we shall have somewhat to suffer
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Why may I not rest me from this restlessness and sleep from this wide waking?