Complaints

Nothing is feebler than the indolent rebellion of complaint...

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Complaints … encourage those who hear our complaints to behave like those we complain about. Once divulged, the offenses done to us seem to make others pardonable. … It is better to praise the favors others have done for you, so as to win still more of them. When you tell how those absent have favored you, you are asking those present to do the same.

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Every one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere habit of complaining.

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There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

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The message that really pisses me off is like, "Well, women in the Middle East are getting their genitalia cut, so you should just shut up." That is completely wrong. The point is we're not all truly free until we're all free, and the women who have mouthpieces need to speak up for the women in other places, and for men too.

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I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

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When you see anyone complainingtowards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

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Never complain if you don't have a better solution.

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I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

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Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.

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From mad dogs and grumbling professors may we all be delivered, and may we never take the complaint from either of them.

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Nothing is easier than fault-finding. No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, is required to set up in the grumbling business. But those that are moved by a genuine desire to do good have little time for murmuring or complaint.

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