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" Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Grief
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" We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. "
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" The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. "
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" Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. "
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" Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. "
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