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The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

Philip Sidney
Sorrow, Violence, Firsts
Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.256, Univ of Wisconsin Press
The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.