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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. – Henry David Thoreau

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When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. – Sophocles

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It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. – William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

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If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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