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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. ↗

— Mark Twain

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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. ↗

— Donald Cargill

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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ↗

— Epictetus

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Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly. ↗

— Jim Elliot

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. ↗

— Henry Ford

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Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in. ↗

— Jackie Kay

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

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When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true. ↗

— Melinda Gates

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