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Grief is a species of idleness. - Samuel Johnson

Grief is a species of idleness. – Samuel Johnson

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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson

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Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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Time is a physician that heals every grief. – Diphilus

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No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories. – Chris Sorensen

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Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs. – Francesca da Rimini

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