Forerunners Quotes - Page 3

• Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

  Rumi

  Courage, Challenges, Foundation

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Grieving, Evil

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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