<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: Sufferings Make Us Stronger</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If Life gets spent with troubles few and rare, <br>Susceptible, becomes the mind and weak; <br>When woes come back, man goes into despair, <br>And like a Lamb, innocent, he is meek.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When man has never felt the slightest pain, <br>The threshold falls to low levels with time; <br>A little touch appears painful again! <br>'Tis pain to ears that hear the bells just chime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When troubles come, the heart and mind turn strong; <br>And suff'rings make one feel life's joys better; <br>Sometimes, it happens, we go in the wrong; <br>Avoiding struggles is the worst fetter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> One can't spend life in dreams often for long; <br> Nevertheless, laugh, smile, whistle a song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371877" data-title="Sonnet: Sufferings Make Us Stronger de John Celes" data-description="If Life gets spent with troubles few and rare, Susceptible, becomes the mind and weak; When woes come back, man goes into despair, And like a Lamb, innocent, he is meek. When man has never felt the slightest pain, The threshold falls to low l..."></div> </div> </div>

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