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Complaining Quotes - Page 13

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.352

The French complain of everything, and always.

Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.678

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge introduction, sec. 3 (1710)