When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.
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