William Shakespeare on Grief
1564–1616 England
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For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
And makes it fearful and degenerate.
Some griefs show much of love;
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip,
When grief hath mates.
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
But I have
That honourable grief lodg'd here which burns
Worse than tears drown.
That we two are asunder; let that grieve him;
Some griefs are medicinable.
If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,
Thou robb'st me of a moiety.
What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,
That made them do it.
What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.
Alas, poor man! grief has so wrought on him,
He takes false shadows for true substances.
You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
Great griefs, I see, medicine the less.
For grief is crowned with consolation.
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