Quote by Samuel Johnson
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. – Samuel Johnson

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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. – Samuel Johnson

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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Kahlil Gibran

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God is closest to those with broken hearts. – Jewish Saying

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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. – Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. – Charlie Brown

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