Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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