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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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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. – Samuel Johnson

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My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson

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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. – Colette

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There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. – Harry Crews

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Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. – Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind

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