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“In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.”

Real Values Loss Grief Objects Bears Fancy Proportion Real Value

Book:The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads

Source: The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads

“Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]”

Men Should Grief Sorrow Majors Let Me Bounds Blow Proportion Moderates Exceed

Author:Juvenal

“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

“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

“But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was gentle and quiet in intense bodily suffering, almost in proportion as she had been restless and depressed when there had been no real cause for grief.”

Mind Kind Real Mother Suffering Causes Grief Serious Quiet Increase Intense Gentle Proportion Sickness Complaints Restless Sprung Sprung Up

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”

Grief Circumstances Depression Proportion Bereavement Postpartum Depression

Book:The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression