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Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. - Bible, Job (ch. V, v. 6-7) Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. [Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.] - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Epitre (V, 44) This peck of troubles. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LIII) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Finibus (bk. II, 32) You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule Should ever be kept at the front;-- Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed. - Edmund Vance Cooke, Don't take your Troubles to Bed Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. - Euripides, Andromeda (10, 2), (fragment) Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. - Benjamin Franklin The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (I, 21, 218) Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. - Edgar Watson Howe Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors. - Rudyard Kipling Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one. - Old English Writing, Complaint of Deor, Stofford Brooke's English rendering If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. - Thomas Paine One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better. - Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-50 The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Hippolytus (act II, sc. 3, l. 607) He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Oedipus (CCXIII) To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep-- No more--and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i) Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out. - Logan Pearsall Smith Groan and forget it. - Jessamyn West
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