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“There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.”

Mind Heart Kind Feelings Spirit Lying Dies Down And Longing Bitter Sickness Anguish Heart And Mind Remorse Fatigue Weariness Prostration

Book:Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

Source: Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

“IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has bent down in his old kindly fashion, And breathed upon her his immortal breath. On wounded soldiers, in their anguish lying, Her gentle spirit shall descend like rain. Where the white flag with the red cross is flying, There shall she dwell, the vanquisher of pain.”

Source: Summer of Love

“With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.”

Spirit Grows Sight Anguish

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.”

Life Spirit Sorrow Rivers Anguish

Book:Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series

Source: Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series

“This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.”

Source: A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons

“Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.”

Spirit Winning Loses Youth Demand Compromise Anguish No Compromise

Author:Marjorie Benton Cooke