Quote by Samuel Johnson
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and bri

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. – Samuel Johnson

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

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Friendship
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You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness. – Terri Guillemets

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You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless. – Terri Guillemets

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They say follow your heart, but if your heart is in a million pieces which piece do you follow? – Author Unknown

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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. – William Butler Yeats

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