"Grief is a species of idleness." — Samuel Johnson
"Grief is a species of idleness."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as…
— Kathleen Battle
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
— Martha Beck
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
— Aeschylus
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for…
— William Blake
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed…
— James Buchan
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to…
— Alcaeus
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
— William S. Burroughs
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that…
— Lord Byron
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