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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: “But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.
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Albert Einstein: “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
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Winston Churchill: “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Theodore Dreiser (attributed): “If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
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David Halverstam: “Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time . . . president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.
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Anne Bradstreet: “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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James Russell Lowell: “Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
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George Washington: “Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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Thomas Paine: “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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Barbara De Angelis: “You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Rainer Maria Rilke: “For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Thomas Jefferson: “We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
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Maya Lin: “To fly, we have to have resistance.
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Albert Schweitzer: “Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
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John Quincy Adams: “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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William Ellery Channing: “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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