“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Alexander Frag. 44
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”
April 10, 1776, p. 305
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
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