"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."

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"I was willing to accept what I couldn't change."

Abdul Kalam, Indian Statesman

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"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful."

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Alan Cohen, American Businessman

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"Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."

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