There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the read more

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
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We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
Si flenda patimur.]

Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey?
And why does thy nose look so blue?

Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey?
And why does thy nose look so blue?

Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's read more

Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

The heart was made to be broken

The heart was made to be broken