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| Dig but deep enough, and under all earth runs water, under all life runs grief. Bulwer. | 1 |
| Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. Spanish. | 2 |
| Every one can master a grief but he that has it. Shakespeare. | 3 |
| Every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making. Sidney Smith. | 4 |
| Everything becomes intolerable to the man who is once subdued by grief. Bolingbroke. | 5 |
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break. Shakespeare. | 6 |
| Great griefs are mute. Italian. | 7 |
| Great griefs medicine the less. Shakespeare. | 8 |
| Grief best is pleased with grief’s society. Shakespeare. | 9 |
| Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon. Publius Syrus. | 10 |
| Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it lightly. | 11 |
| Grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. Ovid. | 12 |
| Grief is the agony of an instant, its indulgence the blunder of a lifetime. Benjamin Disraeli. | 13 |
| Grief pent-up will burst the heart. | 14 |
| Grieving for misfortunes is adding gall to wormwood. | 15 |
| He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before it is necessary. Seneca. | 16 |
| He has seen his step-mother’s grave and he weeps. (Spoken of feigned grief.) Modern Greek. | 17 |
He oft finds medicine who his grief imparts,
But double griefs afflict concealing hearts. Spenser. | 18 |
| He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it. Turkish. | 19 |
| In much wisdom is much grief. | 20 |
In private, grieve—but with a careless scorn,
In public seem to triumph not to mourn. Rambler. | 21 |
| Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy of the living. Shakespeare. | 22 |
| Much of grief shows still some want of wit. Shakespeare. | 23 |
| New grief awakens the old. | 24 |
| No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it. Cicero. | 25 |
| Our griefs how swift, our remedies how slow. Prior. | 26 |
| Our own grief produces pity for another. Richardson. | 27 |
| Patch grief with proverbs. Shakespeare. | 28 |
| She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. Martial. | 29 |
| That grief is light which is capable of counsel. | 30 |
| The grief of the heir is only masked laughter. Latin. | 31 |
| The only cure for grief is action. Geo. Henry Lewes. | 32 |
| The sublimest grief will eat at last. Fielding. | 33 |
| Those griefs burn most that gall in secret. Seneca. | 34 |
| Those who have known grief seldom seem sad. Benjamin Disraeli. | 35 |
| Time and thinking tame the strongest grief. | 36 |
| ’Tis a folly to fret; grief’s no comfort. | 37 |
| To grief there is a limit, not so to fear. Pliny the younger. | 38 |
| Too late to grieve when the chance is past. | 39 |
| When long pent-up griefs once find vent, men love to discharge the load that weighs upon the heart. Tacitus. | 40 |
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