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“Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.”

Giving Night Girl Consciousness Sorrow Creatures Fellows Active Enthusiasm Dawn Devoted Weary Powerless Earnest Majesty Hearted Radiant

Author:John Ruskin

“I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have to shatter our complacency and become "active souls,"and be prepared to engage in aware - that personal struggle between our grief and our sorrow. But I don't think we have any choice.”

Thinking Soul Choices Can Do Grief Struggle Citizens Sorrow Prepared Active Be Prepared Complacency Citizenry Personal Struggle

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.”

Should Joy Spirit Literature Alive Impossible Sorrow Active Cease Dust Organized Restless Joys And Sorrows Restless Spirit

Book:Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Source: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

“There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.”

May Sorrow Active Employment Melancholy Indispensable Mansfield Park

Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.”

World Should Years Memories Trouble Sorrow Active Christmas All Time

Book:Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

Source: Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.”

Should Heart Moments Dream Together Life Is Joy Spirit Alive Impossible Ready Sorrow Spring Active Cease Dust Sparks Restless Snaps Organised Joys And Sorrows Restless Spirit

Book:Letters from Scandinavia

Source: Letters from Scandinavia

“Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.”