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Tears are the silent language of grief
Tears are the silent language of grief
 Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not
 More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--
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 Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not
 More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--
  That is light grieving! 
In all the silent manliness of grief.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common read more
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. -Alphonse de Lamartine.
 What need a man forestall his date of grief,
 And run to meet what he would most avoid?  
 What need a man forestall his date of grief,
 And run to meet what he would most avoid? 
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
 Great grief does not of itself put an end itself.
 [Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]  
 Great grief does not of itself put an end itself.
 [Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.] 
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
 O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin
 Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,
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 O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin
 Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,
  The holy name of Grief--holy herein,
   That, by the grief of One, came all our good.