Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

- Victor Hugo

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

- Victor Hugo

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Adversity makes men,and prosperity makes monsters.

- Victor Hugo

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

- Victor Hugo

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

- Victor Hugo

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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

- Victor Hugo

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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

- Victor Hugo

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

- Anonymous

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

- Herbert George Wells

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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

- Publilius Syrus

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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

- Harry Truman

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It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made

- Sophocles

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To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

- Bion

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One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

- Sophocles

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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Bible

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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

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Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare

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