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“No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned over Saul when he sinned, but he was not able to obtain God's mercy, for his grief was not supported by the necessary change of life on the part of the sinner. Hence God put an end to the pointless grief of His servant, saying to him, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?' (I Sam. 16:1).”

Ifs Men Long Ends Able Christian Asks Prayer Sin Pleasure Grief Virtue Seeing Benefits Mercy Israel Servant Life Changing Sinner Orthodox Rejected Mourn Pointless Necessary Change

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.”

Men Grief Limits Beloved

Author:Horace

“Grief alone can teach us what is man.”

Men Grief Teach Sadness

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.”

Men Pain Turns Grief Fire Cures Burning Desperate Anguish Burn Out Giddy Languish

Book:CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet

Source: CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet

“The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.”

Men Lost Grief Cases Sadness Fine Standards Worthy Dreamer Reverence Another Man Valuation

Book:Autobiographical Writings

Source: Autobiographical Writings

“Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.”

Men Mind Pain Hate Grief Overcoming Greed Obsession Obsessed Confused Delusion Affliction

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him”

Men Years Firsts Doe Age Pleasure Grief Cases Depends Sensations First Love Fourteen

Author:Charles Kingsley