At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction
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A selected quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction
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There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.
... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain