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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was
Difficulties exist to be surmounted
Difficulties exist to be surmounted
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth
trouble spring out of the ground;
Yet man read more
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.
The memory of past troubles is pleasant.
[Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]
The memory of past troubles is pleasant.
[Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
Trouble rides behind and gallops with him.
[Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.]
Trouble rides behind and gallops with him.
[Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.]
Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
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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.
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is read more
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because th
