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“If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?”
“The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.”
“Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.”
“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.”
“Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.”
“Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God's dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that right from the git-go, Larkin Stanton had the ...”
“Always be in command of your music. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.”
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength, within our trials lives our triumphs. Friction create...”
“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
“by indignities men come to dignities”
“You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself.”
“Screw it. Bring on that sorry dragon!Comes down to it, I'll bet Hrundig knows a recipe for cooking the mangy beasts.”
“Adversity is the mother of prosperity”
“You cant take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.”
“I had long believed adversity was the greatest teacher, but I learnt that nothing teaches you more about life than death.”
“There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only w...”
“Brotherhood is born in adversity.”
“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.”
“Attack and adversity contribute to national cohesion in a way that success and affluence do not”
“If you wish to overcome any difficulty, resolved to endure adversity.”
