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“In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.”

Pain Moving Grief Horror Breasts Tyrants Pale

Author:Thomas Gray

“It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.”

Men Humans Joy Fighting Passion Powerful Grief Effects Produce Ambition Adversity Ancient Casts Prosperity Satisfied Observation Breasts Obliged Joy And Grief

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.”

Ifs Whole Seems Would Be Happiness Grief Written Mere Breasts Inward Foe Brows Seeming Envied

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.”

“Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”

Men Doe Pain Suffering Sides Grief Struggle Blood Tears Particular Creatures Accounts Fellows Wounds Breasts Shed Anguish Another Man Pouring

Book:The Man in the Iron Mask

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

“Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end.”

Ifs World Heart Stills Ends Earth Young Joy Lost Felt Grief Darkness Sun Saws Garden Warm Boundaries Breasts Fierce Pale Fragrance Bleeding Herbs Luminous Ardent Gleam Heart Felt

Author:Sigrid Undset

“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”

Grief Rage Grieving Breasts Suppressing

Author:Ovid

“They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.”

Feels Grief Fame Heal Boredom Breasts Bores Woe Exile

Author:William Edmondstoune Aytoun

“And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. Just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, I'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone.”

Thinking World Way Years Two Dream Remember Mother Grief Fantasy Gone Alive Changed Fingers Breasts Two Years Thinking About Her

Author:Claire Messud

“Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.”

Men Heart Hands Eye Happiness Faces Joy Dies Grows Grief Tears Wind Laughter Blow Heavy Breasts Tides Stride Tidy

Book:Poetry

Source: Poetry