Quote by Washington Irving
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevat

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. – Washington Irving

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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all. – Washington Irving

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The great British Library — one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. – Washington Irving

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I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away. – Mary Beth Whitehead

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I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life. – Major Taylor

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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. – William Shakespeare

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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. – Johann von Goethe

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The soul lives unstably in the body, and is capable of mysterious transformations. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. – Mitt Romney

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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. – Mahatma Gandhi

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I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man. – Charlie Chaplin

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