There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage- coach, that it... is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;... But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcel...y felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »