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621. When thou meetest with misfortune face it with thy best smile : for there is nothing like a smile to enable a man to hold his own against it.

622. A whole sea of troubles will abase themselves the moment a shifty mind collecteth itself to face them.

623. Troubles they send away troubled who trouble not themselves at the sight of troubles.

624. Behold the man who is prepared to strain his every nerve like the bull-buffalo to wade through every difficulty: he may meet with obstacles but he will send them away disappointed.

625. Behold the man whose heart sinketh not even at a whole host of troubles arrayed against him : the obstacles in his path have themselves met with an obstacle. Rh