#distress

With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing. ↗

— Joseph Hume

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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. ↗

— Confucius

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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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