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Fear proceeds from the same things when absent which occasion grief when present.

Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.

The third is, that it is folly to wear one's self out with grief which can avail nothing.

Affected of course I am by the loss of a friend as I think there will never be again, such as I can fearlessly say there never was before.

it was the virtue of the man that I loved, and that has not suffered death