Quotes on adversity
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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Garth Brooks Quotes
Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.
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William Arthur Ward Quotes
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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.
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Sren Aaby Kierkegaard Quotes
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
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English Proverb Quotes
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
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Erich Fromm Quotes
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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Washington Irving Quotes
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
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Hugh Miller Quotes
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.
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Aeschylus Quotes
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
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African Proverb Quotes
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
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Lucy Larcom Quotes
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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Theodore Rubin Quotes
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
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William Faulkner Quotes
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
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John F. Kennedy Quotes
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
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Latin Proverb Quotes
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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John Steinbeck Quotes
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
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Harry Golden Quotes
Bad is never good until worse happens.
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Danish Proverb Quotes
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
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William Stafford Quotes
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life purpose is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
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Denis Watley Quotes
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
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John Aughey Quotes
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
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Confucius Quotes
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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Francis Bacon Quotes
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
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Josephine Hart Quotes
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
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Max Lerner Quotes
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
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Charles C. West Quotes
But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
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Robert Herrick Quotes
The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.
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Morris Mandel Quotes
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
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Horace Quotes
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.
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The Houghton Line Quotes
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
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Author Unknown Quotes
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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Sa'Di Quotes
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
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Unknown Author Quotes
A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for.
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Stanislaus I Quotes
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
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Maltbie D. Babcock Quotes
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
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Jean Paul Richter Quotes
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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Mark Twain Quotes
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, but battle on.
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J.K. Rowling Quotes
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Sophocles Quotes
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
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Jack Penn Quotes
Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
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Coventry Patmore Quotes
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Bernard M. Baruch Quotes
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
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Barbara Bloom Quotes
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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Bill Gates Quotes
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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O. Henry Quotes
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Olin Miller Quotes
They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.
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Edward Westcott Quotes
Despair is anger with no place to go.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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Orson Scott Card Quotes
A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life.
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Lee Drake Quotes
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Enduring habits I hate. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.
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Churton Collins Quotes
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter Quotes
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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Albert Schweitzer Quotes
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
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Kenji Miyazawa Quotes
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
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Boris Pasternak Quotes
Adversity is the first path to truth.
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George Gordon Byron Quotes
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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M. Kathleen Casey Quotes
Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.
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Irisa Hail Quotes
You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.
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Uncle Remus Quotes
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
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Arthur Golden Quotes
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Branch Rickey Quotes
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
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Harry Crews Quotes
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
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Rose F. Kennedy Quotes
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
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Mary Engelbreit Quotes
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
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Bernie S. Siegel Quotes
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
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Lou Reed Quotes
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
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Unknown Author Quotes
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
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Robert Fulghum Quotes
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Truman Capote Quotes
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Soul talks to adversity.
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Jareb Teague Quotes
Let your joy scream across the pain.
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Ezbeth Wilder Quotes
Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.
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Lucretius Quotes
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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Thomas Paine Quotes
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
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James K. Feibleman Quotes
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Marcel Proust Quotes
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
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Russian Proverb Quotes
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
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John Vance Cheney Quotes
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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Jean Anouilh Quotes
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
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Frank A. Clark Quotes
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Duke Ellington Quotes
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Billie Holiday Quotes
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
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Martin Luther Quotes
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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Laurence J. Peter Quotes
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
Better bread with water than cake with trouble.
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Russian Proverb Quotes
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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Author Unknown Quotes
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
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John Updike Quotes
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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Anne Bradstreet Quotes
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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Frederick Douglass Quotes
What can that faith do for him in his need?
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Robert Ferguson Quotes
Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity.
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Unknown Author Quotes