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“The English nation is never so great as in adversity.”
“Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.”
“It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.”
“Unless a man has been kicked around a little you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.”
“Troubles cured you salty as a country ham smoky to the taste thick-skinned and tender inside.”
“I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.”
“If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship this pressure produces diamonds.”
“When the world has once begun to use us ill it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.”
“Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.”
“Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?”
“It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.”
“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”
“Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.”
“Fire tries gold misfortune men.”
“My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.”
“Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.”
“[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.”
“A wounded deer leaps the highest.”
“If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.”
“The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.”
