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I want you to tell me how you feel when one of those tormenting thoughts has passed. Do you suffer remorse for having entertained it?" "Only an occasional pang," she said. "I do not allow myself to sorrow or suffer for thoughts which I cannot control. I am suffering from a morbid state of mind, and it is my duty to fight against the impulses which it engenders.
It was in vain that sorrow had early made her a woman; Marsa remained ignorant of the world, without any other guide than Vogotzine; suffering and languid, she was fatally at the mercy of the first lie which should caress her ear and stir her heart.
Thus she taught, and thus she laboured; Living, spent herself to help us, Dying, found her rest among us. Let the dry, harsh winds blow softer And the river's song fall lower, While the forest sways and murmurs In the mystery of evening, And the lonely bush lies silent, Silent with a mighty sorrow.
But since nature has placed within us more powerful restraints to prevent mischief, and since the final cause of compassion is much more to relieve misery, let us go on to the consideration of it in this view. As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.
The young man was leaning against the mantelshelf, watching him with that strange expression that one sees on the faces of those who are absorbed in a play when some great artist is acting. There was neither real sorrow in it nor real joy. There was simply the passion of the spectator, with perhaps a flicker of triumph in his eyes.
And as I look up through the open doorway to where the limitless horizon lies beyond Rome's seven hills, I see stretched out before me the long vista of years throughout which my heart will be for ever weaving with threads of longing and of sorrow the tether which binds undying memory to thee." Her hands, which held the roll of parchment, dropped down upon her lap.
This really is proeter spem, and I mean to think that it will come to pass. But in all this bustle, he found time to enclose a kind little note to me; showing his sympathy with the sorrow of that summer, in my mother's illness: 'Auckland. October 3, 1868.
Lady Elizabeth, therefore, after having risen by her own skill to be one of the most influential women in England perhaps the most influential and that in the face of enormous difficulties, was beginning to fall from her high estate. And besides the bitter disappointment of the loss of influence and of royal smiles, a grievous and humiliating family sorrow was in store for her.
I shall follow him to the ends of the earth. I shall wring the truth from his lips. I must go away," he cried "anywhere, everywhere, trying to forget my great sorrow. How am I to bear it? Has Heaven no pity, that I am so sorely tried?" At that moment little Birdie came hobbling into the room, and for a brief moment Rex forgot his great grief in greeting his little sister.
There may be some listening to me whose memory goes back to this dying year as the year that has held the sorest sorrow of their lives; to whom it has brought some loss that has made earth dark. And it seems hard to tell quivering lips to be thankful, and to bid a man be grateful though his eyes fill with tears as he looks back on such a past.
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