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Grief is a species of idleness. - Samuel Johnson

Grief is a species of idleness. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. – Samuel Johnson

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Tragedy
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Samuel Johnson
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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Samuel Johnson
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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Greed
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Samuel Johnson
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Grief
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Grief is itself a medicine. – William Cowper, Charity

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Grief

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Grief

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

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Grief

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. – Moliere

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Grief

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There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t. – William Trogdon

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I dont watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. – Stephen Fry

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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. – Alexander Pope

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Men

I dont purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesnt give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I cant go fast enough. Its never going to be anything like an F1 car. – Jenson Button

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car