“The greatest griefs are silent.”
Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True
Source: I Know This Much Is True
“[…] faded smiles oft linger in the face,
While grief's first flakes fall silent on the head!”
Source: "Unseasonable Snows", line 13; p. 38, Lyrical Poems (1891)
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