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One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.
-Yiddish Proverb
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One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
-Chinese Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet.
-Yiddish Proverb
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He that falls by himself never cries.
-Proverb
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
-Jane Austen
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
-James Baldwin
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
-Arnold Bennett
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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
-Heywood Broun
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
-Edmund Burke
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
-Elias Canetti
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If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
-Damien Cannon
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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
-E. M. Cioran
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
-Paul Claudel
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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
-William Jefferson Clinton
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It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
-Confucius
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Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.
-Robert A. Cook
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
-Norman Cousins
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It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.
-Coleman Cox
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What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
-Marquis De Custine
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Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
-Anthony D'Angelo
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It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.
-Emile Durkheim
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I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
-Clint Eastwood
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Pessimism never won any battle.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
-Desiderius Erasmus
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Books about Pessimism
