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Grief is a species of idleness. - Samuel Johnson

Grief is a species of idleness. – Samuel Johnson

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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. – Samuel Johnson

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Language
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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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Equality
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. – Samuel Johnson

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Letters (writing)
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Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love. – Terri Guillemets

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Grief

Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Grief

Time is a physician that heals every grief. – Diphilus

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Grief

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

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Mr. [Thomas] Gray the poet has often observed to me that if a man were to form a Book of what he had seen and heard himself it must in whatever hands prove a most useful and entertaining one. – Horace Walpole, quoted in Walpoliana, 1800

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Quotations

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan. – Jared Diamond

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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best

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? – Sitting Bull

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Men