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“Small leisure have the poor for grief.”

Poor Grief Poverty Leisure

Book:Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl

Source: Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl

“On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.”

“The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.”

People Poor Grief Hopeless Affected

Author:Gideon Welles

“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”

Heart Dark Poor Grief Flower Sorrow Spring Graves Graveyard

Book:Infelicia [poems].

Source: Infelicia [poems].

“If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!”

Ifs Would Be Lost Poor Grief Pay Grieving Sooner Or Later Penalties

Author:Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

“Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.”

“Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.”

Father Poor Grief Pure Glad Mortals Shore Thread Maxims Desdemona

Book:Othello

Source: Othello

“Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child. "Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!”

Source: Sylvie and Bruno

“Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.”

Poor Grief Rich Prove Gains Profit Excess

Book:Poems: Third Series

Source: Poems: Third Series

“You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.”

Men Age Poor Grief Old Man Wretched Lear

Author:William Shakespeare

“Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.”

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.”

People Thinking Knows Children Order Black Memories Poor Grief Patient Division Rejoice Poor People Violet Purple Be Patient Bereavement Rebellious Radiant

Author:George Bernard Shaw