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title: "7 Antidote Sorrow Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-safe-and-general-antidote-against-sorrow-is-employment/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/euripides/both-to-the-rich-and-poor-wine-is-the-happy-antidote-for-sorrow/)

[Euripides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/euripides/)

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> [Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/work-is-the-best-antidote-to-sorrow-my-dear-watson/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-b-hinckley/the-best-thing-you-can-do-is-just-keep-busy-keep-working-hard-so-you/)

[Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-b-hinckley/)

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> [The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-safe-and-general-antidote-against-sorrow-is-employment-it-is/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [“It required a strong effort to abstract her thoughts from other interests sufficiently to attend to this, but she was rewarded for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-radcliffe/it-required-a-strong-effort-to-abstract-her-thoughts-from-other/)

[Ann Radcliffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-radcliffe/)

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> [Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-radcliffe/employment-is-the-surest-antidote-to-sorrow/)

[Ann Radcliffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-radcliffe/)

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