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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Trouble

Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
—Lady Holland

Troubles are like babies—they only grow by nursing.
—Douglas Jerrold

Troubled, like a fountain stirr’d.
—William Shakespeare

Troubled, as Cretan seas when vext by warring winds.
—Edmund Smith

Troubled, as if with anger or pain.
—Alfred Tennyson