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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears; and to all these, the consideration of mortality is a certain and adequate remedy.
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Even grief, that passion to which the virtuous and tender mind is particularly subject, will be obviated or alleviated by the same thoughts.
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An habitual sadness seizes upon the soul, and the faculties are chained to a single object, which can never be contemplated but with hopeless uneasiness.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.
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Native deformity cannot be rectified, a dead friend cannot return, and the hours of youth trifled away in folly, or lost in sickness, cannot be restored.
Samuel Johnsonverified·The Rambler No. 52, in The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2·September 15, 1750
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The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.