"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.]