Lamentation Quotes
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There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.
Homer -
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?
Alexander the Great
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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
Charles Dickens -
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.
Plutarch -
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
Seneca the Younger