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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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The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. – Washington Irving

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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving

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The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. – Washington Irving

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We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. – Samuel Hopkins Adams

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God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. – Albert Camus

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Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. – Emily Dickinson

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The cure for sorrow is to learn something. – Barbara Sher

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