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“Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.”

Littles Pain Joy Grief Flower Gains Welcome Crowns Leafs Gladness

Author:Dan Simmons

“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”

Inspirational Children Littles Law Loss Grief Events Kings Eternal Size Grieving Proportion Crowns Dolls

Book:The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's

Source: The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's

“In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs-and God has given my share- I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.”

World Stills Care Hope Given Hours Grief Share This World Lays Rounds Humble Wander Crowns

Book:The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield

“The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.”

Children Made Christian Religious Grief Trouble Blood Kings Honor Sorrow Highest Red Lifts Crowns Affliction Jewels Martyrdom

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.”

Heart Made Joy Force Grief Pride My Heart Waste Hatred Distance Prepared Terror Revenge Rage Selfish Pursuit Crowns Savages Helplessness

Book:I explain a few things: selected poems

Source: I explain a few things: selected poems

“Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?”

Stills Able Suffering Loses Sleep Grief Sorrow Branches Over You Crowns

Book:New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition

Source: New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition