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• The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

  William Penn

  Death, Life Is, End Of Life

  William Penn (1807). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a "Description of the happy man & true gentleman."”, p.92

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Smile, Condolences, My Condolences

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Destiny, Joy, Sorrow

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• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Death

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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• Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Mystic

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.115

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• All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Selfishness, Virtue, Consistent

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous”, p.341

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• It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Real, Condolences

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.391, Regnery Publishing

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• Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

  George Eliot

  People, Depth, Hiding

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• For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Grief, Loss

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessing, Soul, World

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.228, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

  Felicia Hemans

  Kindred

  Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1872). “Poems of Felicia Hemans”, p.382

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• The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

  Euripides

  Men, He Man, Social

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• Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

  Bob Feller

  Yankees, Pitching

  "Strikeout Story".

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• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Death, Condolences

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

  James O'Barr

  Death, Real, Lost Love

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

  John Lubbock

  Love, Thoughtful, Men

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• For grief is crowned with consolation.

  William Shakespeare

  Condolences, Grief, Consolation

  "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare, Act I, scene 2, line 173, 1600s.

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• It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

  Novalis

  Mind, Gains, Belief

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• If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

  Dirk Benedict

  Courage, Condolences, Enjoy Life

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Thinking, Century, Hard

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• Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

  Ambrose

  Wicked, Harbors, Shipwreck

  "De bono mortis" by Ambrose, 8, 31, 387-391.

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