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• We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Rights, Expression

  The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

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• No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

  Washington Irving

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.39, e-artnow

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• People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

  Robert Breault

  Adversity, People, Support

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• The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity.

  Matt Chandler

  Christian, Maturity, Views

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• Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

  Lydia M. Child

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Angel, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.275, Pan Macmillan

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• In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

  Andy Rooney

  Learning, Errors, Trial And Error

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.146, PublicAffairs

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• How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

  John Donne

  Love Is, Long, Great Love

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.

  Amy Lowell

  Soul, Balance, Comfort

  Amy Lowell (1926). “What's o'clock”

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• ... Not only are we comforted in our trials, but our trials can equip us to comfort others.

  Billy Graham

  Comfort

  Billy Graham (1996). “Unto the Hills”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

  Wallace Stegner

  Life, Errors, Dubious

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

  John Mason Brown

  Men, Action, Opinion

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• Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

  Diana Trilling

  Running, Saws, Defense

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• When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

  J. William Fulbright

  Liars, Men, Indulge In

  J. William Fulbright's speech in the Senate on McCarthyism (February 2, 1954), as quoted in "Congressional Record", Volume 100 (p. 1105), 1954.

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• Since ... 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the faithful to enter it by any other way, unless they come through the narrow gate of trials and tribulations, the divine oracle rightly commands us, saying: 'Strive to enter by the narrow door' (Lk. 13:24). Again He says, 'By your endurance you will gain your souls' (Lk. 21:19), and, 'Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of heaven' (Acts 14:22).

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Doors, Heaven

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• Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is cast in the fire and thoroughly hammered with mallets, so when the soul has been tarnished with the rust of sin and become thoroughly useless it cannot be cleansed and recover its original beauty unless it meets many trials and enter into the furnace of tribulations.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Fire, Cfs

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• The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?

  John Perry

  Book, School, Boys

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• Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God; for we may be come upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. It is a short road to unselfishness; for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.

  Frederick William Faber

  Home, Exercise, Self

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• Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will never be without strife and grief. Thus, we should not strive for a peace that is without temptation, or for a life that never feels adversity. Peace is not found by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them. We will have discovered peace when we have been tried and come through the trial of temptation.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Grief, Adversity

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• The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Heart

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.725, Library of America

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• At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humorous, Feelings

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• ...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Self, Wind, Movement

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• Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Kids

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2013

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• The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Errors, Differences

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• If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Believe, Passion, Years

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