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“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.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.”

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Author:John Milton

“Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.”

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Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.”

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Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.”

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”

Book:Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

Source: Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”

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Author:Aeschylus

“Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

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Book:Following the Equator:

Source: Following the Equator:

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Source: Poetical works

“Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”

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Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.”

“A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.”

Source: The Passage

“Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have to re-learn,to remember how to love,and everyone,without exception,needs o burn on the bonfire of past emotions,to relieve certain joys and griefs,certain ups and downs,until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter;because there is a connecting thread.”

“Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?”

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Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”

“Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words.”

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Author:Kate Grenville