"There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow." — Jane Austen

Self-help is the best help.

Source: Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, Hercules and the Wagoner (1867)

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Source: The Task (1785)

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

Source: Middlemarch (1871-1872)

Many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the deep.

Source: The Odyssey, book 1 (Butcher/Lang translation)

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

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