“So large a part of human life passes in a state contrary to our natural desires, that one of the principal topics of moral instruction is the art of bearing natural calamities. And such is the certainty of evil, that it is the duty of every man to furnish his mind with those principles that may enable him to act under it with decency and propriety.”
Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, July 7, 1750 (courtesy of Anecdotal Evidence)
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