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Quote 3642
Evil is so made to wait upon good in this world—to quicken it by alarm, to brighten it by contrast.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3623
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 3621
All that he had left was a little house in a desolate place at least a hundred leagues from the town in which he had lived, and to this he was forced to retreat with his children, who were in despair at the idea of leading such a different life.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3611
The Wolf began to run as fast as he could, taking the nearest way, and the little girl went by that farthest about, diverting herself in gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and making nosegays of such little flowers as she met with.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3603
Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3598
It leaves us bare and powerless where we thought that we were safe and strong.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3597
It is true that this duty is a hard one, and the doubt which comes out of it is often a very bitter thing.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3595
How are we to face our queen, said the three mice, when by our folly we have lost the talisman and condemned our people to be utterly exterminated?by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3590
What is to be done? said the Queen.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3511
It is our duty to act upon probabilities, although the evidence is not such as to justify present belief.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3502
The books and manuscripts being thus for sale, the wooden shelves, desks, and seats of the old library, and for the most part the contents of the library had been rescued from miserable ill-usage in the monasteries and chapter-houses where they had their first habitations.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3492
In case of friction, the machine is always at fault.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3489
The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude is to me repugnant.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3488
I cannot possibly allow you to scatter priceless pearls of time with such Oriental lavishness.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3487
No newspaper reading in trains!by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3486
I will defy you to account to me on the spur of the moment for the other eight hours.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3484
So let us begin to examine the budget of the day's time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3477
The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3474
And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there comes the real trouble—the heart pain—the world pain.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 3345
The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3338
My evil company hath been my bane, and sleep thereto remorseless.by: HomerShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3335
Many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the deep.by: HomerShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3301
There is no effort without error and shortcoming.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3277
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 3274
Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it.by: John DonneShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3273
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.by: John DonneShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3247
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3192
Mortals' unwisdom is the worst of all.by: SophoclesShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 3158
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 3157
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3143
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3142
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 3055
Of two evils, choose neitherShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 3014
In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youthby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2993
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody elseby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2957
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vatShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 2931
If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offenderby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2929
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truthby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2923
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic momentby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 2896
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have doneShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2895
The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destinyShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2875
If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crimeShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2855
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heavenShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2845
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his foreverShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2779
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appearby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2771
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.by: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2733
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great objectby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2695
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizerShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2681
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmthShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2651
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 2643
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2637
Evil is whatever distracts.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2633
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2632
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 2598
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or factShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2578
Success in crime always invites to worse deedsby: Edward CokeShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 2577
One threatens the innocent who spares the guiltyby: Edward CokeShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2574
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punishedby: Edward CokeShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2555
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problemShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2484
Difficulty is the element, and resistance the true work of a manShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2468
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflictShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Error is discipline through which we advanceShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2362
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person lessShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2358
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your propertyShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2227
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to deathShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2164
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distractionShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2163
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of painShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 2162
The devil's most devilish when respectableShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 2112
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflictedby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 2084
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weepsby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 2002
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it isby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1994
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successesShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1943
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but sufferingby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1940
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.by: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1937
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.by: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1898
If you're going through hell, keep going.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their lives, which infallibly destroy themby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human natureby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1734
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despairby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportableShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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“It is always good men who do the most harm in the worldShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanishShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1684
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caughtby: Honore de BalzacShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1683
In law, nothing is certain but the expenseby: Samuel ButlerShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1681
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyerShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 1680
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.Showing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1679
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuitby: George HerbertShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.by: EuripidesShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 1568
Men often act knowingly against their interestby: David HumeShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy, a wise man because he thinks what is easy is difficultShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.by: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swearby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1411
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shameShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.by: Thomas FullerShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to loseShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 1407
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
Quote 1406
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mindShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Quote 1331
In fair weather prepare for foulby: Thomas FullerShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath themby: Jean PaulShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's uselessShowing Quotes on Problems and difficulties
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