“Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”
Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)
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American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891Related quotes
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist
1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/64/12264.html, vol. 1, letter 39
“We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.”
Charles Portis book True Grit
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 32 : 'Colonel Stonehill'
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu'à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.
Maxim 174.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Be cheerful, do good, and let the sparrows chirp.”
John Bosco (1815–1888) Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator and writer
Source: http://www.jugendherberge.de/en/youth-hostels/benediktbeuern%20don%20bosco205/leisure%20activities
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
Address to the Prague World Congress of International PEN Club (7 November 1994) http://www.englishpen.org/writersinprison/wipcnews/peninternationaldeeplysaddenedbydeathofvclavhavelaconstantchampionforfreedomofexpression/
“It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear.”
Robert L. Heilbroner book The Worldly Philosophers
Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter IX, John Maynard Keynes, p. 240
Context: It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their indisputable existence argued more forcibly than any text that something was wrong with the system, the economists wrung their hands and racked their brains and called upon the spirit of Adam Smith, but could offer neither diagnosis or remedy.
“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman