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• Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  James Buckham Kennedy

  Depression, Wise, Adversity

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• Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.

  Delbert L. Stapley

  Strength, Father, Blessing

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• I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  School, Giving, Peaceful

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.159, Tara Publishing

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• I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Letters, Hours

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.11, Springer

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• With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Adversity, Sight, Impossible

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• Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

  Edith Sitwell

  Baby, Water, Hot

  As quoted in "20,000 Quips & Quotes" by Evan Esa, 1995.

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• A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

  Mark Twain

  Lame, Murder, Jokes

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.485

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• The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Light, Congress And The President, Honor

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.

  Nastia Liukin

  Dream, Cheer, Team

  Interview With Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

  John Ruskin

  Determination, Luxury, Water

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.107

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• The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.

  Hannah More

  Ubiquity, Support, Nerves

  Hannah More (1860). “Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, containing notices of Lord Macaulay's youth: Edited and arranged by Arthur Roberts”, p.9

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• ... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

  Hannah More

  Sober, Rich, Resources

  Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.323

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• Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Nations

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.27

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• The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

  Shana Alexander

  Drama, Aquariums, Play

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• What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Sweet, Air, Feet

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

  Jane Jacobs

  Errors, Cities, Design

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.6, Vintage

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• [On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.

  Harriet Martineau

  Wise, Views, Disability

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• Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, Rich, Poor

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1872). “Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell”, p.6

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• Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Daughter, Mother, Atheist

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

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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, Adversity

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• science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

  Joan Robinson

  Science, Errors, Progress

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.38, Transaction Publishers

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• As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Self, Doubt, Permanent

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• I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.

  Michael Jackson

  Media, Citizens, Ugly

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Support, Alternatives, Terrorist

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 15, 2009.

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• If you are accused of being associated with terrorism, which could mean you are an Arab- American and you've sent e-mails to a relative in the Middle East, you should get your day in court, and I think you should get a lawyer and a trial, and I think most Americans agree to that.

  Rand Paul

  Mean, Thinking, Middle East

  "Sen. Rand Paul on top congressional issues; pivotal moment in the battle over gay marriage". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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