#troubles

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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Every age has its happiness and troubles. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

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Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#troubles #beauty

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening. ↗

— Titus Livius

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We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from. ↗

— David Lloyd

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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. ↗

— Lucretius

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A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. ↗

— Raymond Duncan

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Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles. ↗

— Allen Klein

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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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