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Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind. |
Samuel Johnson |
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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' |
Ann Landers |
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If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. |
Jimmy Buffett |
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace |
Thomas Paine |
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It takes two to get one in trouble. |
Mae West |
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man |
James Thurber |
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. |
T.S. Eliot |
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One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about |
Bertrand Russell |
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That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
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The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts. |
Bertrand Russell |
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship |
Edgar Watson Howe |
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant |
Karl Kraus |
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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time |
John Barrymore |
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The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. |
Herbert Prochnow |
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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people |
E. B. White |
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock |
Christopher Morley |
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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. |
Mark Twain |
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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