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Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Samuel Johnson
Past, Mind, Sorrow
Samuel Johnson (1791). “The Rambler”, p.270
Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.