Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies...

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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

—Benjamin Disraeli

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

—Benjamin Disraeli

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

—Benjamin Disraeli

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

—Benjamin Disraeli

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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It is light grief that can take counsel.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

—Ann Radcliffe

Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

—Marcus Antonius

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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for joy.

—Pema Chödrön

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That life… that she had complained against, had murmured at, had raged at and defied—nonetheless she had loved it so, joyed in it so, both in good days and evil, that not one day had there been when it would not have seemed hard to give it back to God, nor one grief that she could have forgone without regret.

—Sigrid Undsetfs

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