Grieved Quotes
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Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Bible (Old Testament)— Psalms 95:8-11.
Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.
thomas campion— 1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.
They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes that want of government is any new kind of government.
thomas hobbes— 1651Leviathan, pt.2, ch.19.
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
william wordsworth— 1798 'LinesWritten in Early Spring', stanza 2.
Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just,Stoop’d down serene and wrote them in the dust,—Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind.There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,And grieved they could not ’scape the Almighty eye.
samuel madden— Boulter's Monument (1745), dedicated to Frederick, Prince of Wales, who had been Madden's student.
I was deeply grieved and suddenly depleted by a draining weariness. This day had been a nightmare, and I had not yet been asleep.
john ashcroft— p. 12 (Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006))
Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part; Each comic heart must now be grieved to see The Sexton's dreary part performed on thee.
Robert Fergusson— Robert Fergusson, Epigram on the Death of Mr. Thomas Lancashire, Comedian.
Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop’d down serene and wrote them in the dust, Trod under foot, the sport of every wind, Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind. There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie, And grieved they could not ’scape the Almighty eye.
— Boulter's Monument (1745), dedicated to Frederick, Prince of Wales, who had been Madden's student.
