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any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy, will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.

Time is observed generally to wear out sorrow, and its effects might doubtless be accelerated by quickening the succession, and enlarging the variety of objects.

                       Si tempore longo
Leniri poterit luctus, tu sperne morari,

Qui sapiet sibi tempus erit.

Grotius

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'Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief;

To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

F. Lewis..

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.