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“When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.”

“Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.”

Should Dream Lasts Joy Grief Sadness Fairs Wounds Woe Mourn

Book:The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Prophetess. Queen of Corinth. Tragedy of Bonduca. Knight of the Burning Pestle

Source: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Prophetess. Queen of Corinth. Tragedy of Bonduca. Knight of the Burning Pestle

“Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.”

Mind Art Pain Joy Hate Pleasure Grief Balance Fairs Train Bounds Dues Hope Love

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.”

World Reason Grief Figures Sorrow Taste Fairs Size Vain Proportion Tolerate Affliction Ridicule Limbs Not Fair Conjunctions Unbecoming

Book:Persuasion - Jane Austen

Source: Persuasion - Jane Austen

“...all man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth. And the social system for man on earth is fair enough, eventually, that almost all massive cheating ends in disgrace.”

Ifs Men Ends Enough Earth Lasts Social Growth Grief Fairs Rate Chosen Cheating Massive Finite Disgrace Progression Social Systems Geometric

Author:Charlie Munger

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

World Love Stills Inspiration Hope Grows Dark Love Is Grief Greater Land Fairs Peril Dark Places Fellowship Of The Ring Galadriel

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.”

Found Grief Creatures Fairs Forgiving Thee

Book:Tennyson: Selected Poetry

Source: Tennyson: Selected Poetry

“I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.”

World Believe May Two Dream Seems Found Names Grief Virtue Failing Goodness Fairs Grieving Deceiving Foe Sincerely Merciful Snares

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.”

Men World Heart Chance Grief This World Fairs Shame Brave Ill Bitterness

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!”

“I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.”

Way Helping Felt Grief Fairs Blame Stuck Handle Horrible Cycles

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .”

Source: The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”

Thinking Said Earth Law Left Grief Gone Greater Fairs Historical Fiction Achilles

Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.”

Thinking Body Mother Wish Grief Flower Fairs Ugly Your Body Graves Familiar My Future Wrong Things Cemetery Not Fair

Author:Karen Russell

“Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.”

Ends Grief Fairs Fairness

Book:The complete works of William Shakespeare: comprising his plays and poems with Dr. Johnson's preface, a glossary, an account of each play, and a memoir of the author

Source: The complete works of William Shakespeare: comprising his plays and poems with Dr. Johnson's preface, a glossary, an account of each play, and a memoir of the author