“ They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man. ”
- John Pearson- Copy
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“ If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ He was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart. ”
- Damon Runyon- Copy
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“ By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee. ”
- Algernon Charles Swinburne- Copy
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“ Widows are divided into two classes — the bereaved and relieved. ”
- Victor Robinson- Copy
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“ We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one. ”
- Thomas Lynch- Copy
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“ I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize. ”
- Joe Hill- Copy
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“ And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. ”
- George Washington Cable- Copy
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“ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Mourning is not forgetting… It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. ”
- Margery Allingham- Copy
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“ If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter. ”
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt- Copy
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“ Three things are fundamental to an understanding of mourning. First, each loss launches us on an inescapable course through grief. Second, each loss revives all past losses. Third, each loss, if fully mourned, can be a vehicle for growth and regeneration. ”
- Vamik D. Volkan- Copy
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“ There is so much deceitfulness in the heart of man, so much hypocrisie in Funeral mourning, that you may bless God for your own assurance of the sincerity of your natural affection, and religious respect to your Parents, and take delight in a just expectation, that it will be rewarded by the future respect of your children. ”
- John Pearson- Copy
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