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Fear proceeds from the same things when absent which occasion grief when present.
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Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.
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The third is, that it is folly to wear one's self out with grief which can avail nothing.
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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.
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In such cases friendships should be allowed to die out gradually by an intermission of intercourse.
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it was the virtue of the man that I loved, and that has not suffered death
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Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.