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“Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.”

Trouble Spring Ease Toil Idleness Poor Richard

Book:Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

Source: Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.”

Source: The Cyberiad

“Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.”

Children Trouble Sweet Spring Bud

Author:Euripides

“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.”

Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

“The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.”

People Self Spirit Energy Trouble Worst Despair Spring Defeat Opening Horizon Invites Fulfilling Hopelessness Helplessness

Author:Norman Cousins

“When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.”

Happiness Trouble Duty Anxiety Spring Performances Midst Unhappiness Anxious Strict

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.”

Joy Trouble Spring True Joy

Book:The Works of Symon Patrick: Including His Autobiography

Source: The Works of Symon Patrick: Including His Autobiography

“One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.”

Knows Men Giving Writing Firsts May Whole Character Hands Trouble Special Information Spring Rivers Mathematics Faults Physics One Man Currency

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“Trouble Springs From Idleness.”

Trouble Spring Idleness

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.”

Long Made Stills Done Lines Trouble Long Time Spring Mouths Tongue Mud Thirsty Straight Lines

Author:Samuel Beckett