"The only thing grief has taught me is……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as…
— Kathleen Battle
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
— Martha Beck
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
— Aeschylus
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for…
— William Blake
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed…
— James Buchan
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to…
— Alcaeus
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
— William S. Burroughs
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that…
— Lord Byron
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