Sorrow has brought it about. Affliction has stretched their
heart-chords
INTO TRUE HARMONY.
"The safe and general antidote against sorrow," says Dr. Johnson, "is
employment. It is commonly observed that among soldiers and seamen,
though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their
friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in
security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the
care of themselves; and whoever shall keep himself equally busy will
find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses. Time is
observed to wear out sorrow, and its effects might doubtless be
accelerated by quickening the succession and enlarging the variety of
objects."
[Illustration: SORROW.]
THERE IS ANOTHER AND AN UNHAPPY PHASE
of sorrow. "When it is real," says Madame Swetchine, "it is almost as
difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the
rags of the one and the wounds of the other." "The deeper the sorrow,
the less tongue hath it," says the Talmud. "Light griefs do speak," says
Seneca, "while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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