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"It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox."
"Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you."
"Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!"
"I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
"I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me."
"...The world wouldn't be the world, without trouble."
"When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be"."
"Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles."
"When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble."
"The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome."
"It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them."
"Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles."
"For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from."
"Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you."
"The economy is in tatters; your job is in trouble - if you still have a job. And you know what? I've been saying it for years."
"We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one."
"Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open."
"It takes two to get one in trouble."
"My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'"
"So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies."
