1,395 quotes found
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.”
“Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.”
“Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.”
“A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.”
“I've had an unhappy life thank God.”
“Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.”
“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we...”
“What does not destroy me makes me strong.”
“I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.”
“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.”
“From a fallen tree all make kindling.”
“The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.”
“Prosperity tries the fortunate adversity the great.”
“Be willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence every one must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.”
“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.”
“Fire tries gold misfortune men.”
“The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.”
“Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.”
