Grieves Quotes
45 quotes by 41 authors
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
— Francis Bacon
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of…
— Edmund Burke
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To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic, worries or grieves…
— Watchman Nee
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.
— Charles E. McKenzie
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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children;…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as…
— Mark Twain
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The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with…
— Edward Irving
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never…
— Aristophanes
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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves…
— Mark Twain
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Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee, who heav'n and earth commands. Who points the clouds their courses,…
— Paul Gerhardt
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Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.
— R C Sproul
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It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.
— Peter O'Toole
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Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.
— Maximus the Confessor
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the…
— Elie Wiesel
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The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands…
— Janet Malcolm
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
— Martial
Who Wrote These Grieves Quotes
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