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Condolences Quotes - Page 2

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 177 (1807)

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.282, Harriet Beecher Stowe

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.113

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1076, Delphi Classics

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.31, Yale University Press

For grief is crowned with consolation.

"Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare, Act I, scene 2, line 173, 1600s.