"Out of the frying pan and into the fire"

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Source: Middlemarch (1871-1872)

Beware the fury of a patient man!

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, volume 1

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

To be caught between a rock and a hard place

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated

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