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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels som

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. – Joseph Joubert

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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. – Joseph Joubert

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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. – Thomas Carlyle, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843 November 17th

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Shutting yourself in the wardrobe until the window cleaner has finished and left. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. – Edward Everett Hale

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[A]ny concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. – Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

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