Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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.]

You may batter your way through the thick of the fray,
You may sweat, you may swear, you may read more

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.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace

The trouble is small, the fun is great.
[Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]

The trouble is small, the fun is great.
[Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]

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.

I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.

I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.