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“If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.”

Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

“When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.”

Loss Humility Pride Glory Gains Crosses Died Contempt Surveys Wondrous Sanctity Of Life

Author:Isaac Watts

“Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement - these were big social transitions in which there was a movement on the ground in which a lot of people died, but it also took an independent political party.”

People Ifs Looks Ends Bigs Political Social Party Struggle Movement Gains Labor Vote Died Independent Slavery Transition Political Parties Right To Vote Labor Movement

Author:Jill Stein

“The world lost something when you died, Tod, and I know that wasn't easy for your family. But the world's loss was Kaylee's gain. I hope the two of you have the forever her mother and I never got. I will do my damnedest to make sure of that. I know you will.”

Knows World Two Mother Lost Easy Loss Forever Gains Died Kaylee

Book:Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake

Source: Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake

“But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the hymn: 'When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died. My richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride.'”

Source: The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988