“Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.”
Easter Day II, l. 34-35.
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“My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!”
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Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
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Source: Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976), p. 42.
Context: There can be no doubt that Jesus was a remarkably cheerful person and that his joy, like his faith and hope, was infectious. This was in fact the most characteristic and most noticeable difference between Jesus and John. As we shall see later, Jesus feasted while John fasted (Luke 7:31-34).
“The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Parents and Children
Essays (1625)
Context: The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.
“True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.”
Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist
Part Five “Revels”, Chapter i “Cal, Among Miracles” (p. 199)
(1987), BOOK TWO: THE FUGUE
