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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
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 man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun
One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun
I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
[Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.]
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
[Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.]
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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.
