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“My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.”

Heart Soul Lasts Night Grief Influence Sweet Broken Lovers My Heart Army Extraordinary Ill Senses My Soul Thee Ease Waking Portraits Remembrance Last Night Repose Delirium Incomparable

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.”

Light Joy Grief Sweet Judgment Mercy Relief Compensation Thorns Gloom

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?”

Suffering Grief Sweet

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)

“The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.”

Grief Compassion Known Sweet Integrity Stealing Thieves

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.”

Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

“No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.”

Pain Grief Sweet Melancholy Delicious No Pain

Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

“I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life.”

Ifs Knows Want Moments Night Grief Company Sweet Despair Empty Bones Get Up Weary Bruised Company You Keep

Author:Jon Blais

“In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.”

Heart Art Care Dies Fall Grief Music Sweet Comfort Musician Music Is Killing Hearing Orpheus Sweet Music Hearing Music

Author:William Shakespeare

“Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.”

Mind Children Father Sleep Grief Silence Sweet Kings Approach Mortals Host Sole Indifferent Oppressed Shepherds Comforter

Author:William Drummond

“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.”

Long Moments Character Pain Joy Mother Father Lost Pleasure Grief Tears Sweet Broken Sacred Embrace Bitter Cups Solemn Recollection Orphan Sisters And Mothers Joy And Grief

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“Good grief, Molly. He doesn't scare you?" "Of course not." "But he's..." "He's sweet," Molly insisted. Dare snorted. "He's still listening.”

Stills Courses Grief Sweet Listening Dare Scare

Author:Lori Foster

“Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.”

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes

“Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.”

Pain Mother Left Voice Grief Sweet Misery Conviction

Author:Toni Morrison

“Sweet is a grief well ended.”

Life Wells Wisdom Grief Sweet

Book:Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)

Source: Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)

“Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.”

“Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain. Through want of a thing does its worth redouble, Through hunger's pangs does the feast content, And only the heart that has harboured trouble Can fully rejoice when joy is sent. Let no one shrink from the bitter tonics Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife, For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonics Are found in the minor strains of life.”

Knows Want Needs Heart Doe Soul Moments Pain Joy Asks Found Loss Grief Trouble Sweet Praying Sorrow Gains Lifetime Hunger Bitter Rejoice Yearning Minors Strife Strain Chords Shrinks Morrow

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.”

Heart Whole Joy Suffering Given Perfect Grief Sweet Sorrow Offers Given Up Illumination Rushing Martyred

Book:Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

“Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!”

Christ Grief Forever Sweet Drink Filled Lips Cups Curse Drank Dregs

Author:Octavius Winslow

“I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?”

Knows Doe Grief Saws Sweet Sorrow Taste Blessing Sells Drinking Caught Cups Ruined

Author:Rumi