Samuel Johnson Quote
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.
Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LL., D., to which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed (ed. 1788)
