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Grief is a species of idleness. - Samuel Johnson

Grief is a species of idleness. – Samuel Johnson

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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger. – Samuel Johnson

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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. – Samuel Johnson

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Grief is itself a medicine. – William Cowper, Charity

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Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. – Bede Jarrett

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No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. – E.M. Cioran

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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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