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Quote by Bertrand Russell
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. – Bertrand Russell

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

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Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Bygone troubles are good to tell. – Yiddish Proverb

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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. – Socrates

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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. – Voltaire

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