Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comfort

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame. – Antonia S. Byatt

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Theres no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
Theres such a thing as keeping
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When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie
In that vast house, common to serfs and Thanes,
I shall not die, I shall not utterly die,
For beauty born of beauty– that remains. – Madison Cawein

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Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. Psalms 30:5 – Bible

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