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  Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, God, Stay Strong

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.42

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• There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

  John H. Vincent

  Sadness, Clouds, Rainbow

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 556, 1895.

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• We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Failure, Blessing, Flames

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• There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.

  James Taylor

  Thinking, Guy, Pulse

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• The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Real, Heart, Winter

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• I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.

  Bob Hope

  Pugs, Lucky, Boxers

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• Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent,
  Adversity then breeds the discontent.

  Robert Herrick

  Love Is, Wealth, Discontent

  Robert Herrick (1856). “Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick”, p.37

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• Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.

  Marge Piercy

  Country, Ham, Taste

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.76, Knopf

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• The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

  Laurence Sterne

  Comfort, May, Dropping

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: The sermons of Mr. Yorick”, p.420

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• It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

  Teresa of Avila

  Fall, Soul, May

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Forgiving, Saint, Injury

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• In this wild world the fondest and the best
  Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.

  George Crabbe

  Wild World, World, Distress

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• Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.

  Herbert Spencer

  Distress, Hard

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• [A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Cocky, Childhood, Littles

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• There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Christian, Character, Giving

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Hurt, Failure, Doe

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• Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

  Rose Kennedy

  Trying, Prosperity, Fortunate

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• Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Suffering, Facts

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• Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.

  Bruce Lee

  Thinking, Prosperity, States

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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• Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

  M. Scott Peck

  Cutting, Problem, Success And Failure

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• Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Heroes and Hero-Worship". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.

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  You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  War, Flower, Winter

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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