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• Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  James Buckham Kennedy

  Depression, Wise, Adversity

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• I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  School, Giving, Peaceful

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.159, Tara Publishing

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• Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.

  Delbert L. Stapley

  Strength, Father, Blessing

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• I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Letters, Hours

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.11, Springer

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• With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Adversity, Sight, Impossible

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• A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

  Mark Twain

  Lame, Murder, Jokes

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.485

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• Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

  Edith Sitwell

  Baby, Water, Hot

  As quoted in "20,000 Quips & Quotes" by Evan Esa, 1995.

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• The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Light, Congress And The President, Honor

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.

  Nastia Liukin

  Dream, Cheer, Team

  Interview With Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.

  Patrick Shade

  Weather, Agency, Growth

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• As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.

  Daniel Cawdry

  Musician, Fruition, Affliction

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• [On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.

  Harriet Martineau

  Wise, Views, Disability

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• science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

  Joan Robinson

  Science, Errors, Progress

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.38, Transaction Publishers

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• There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Christian, Character, Adversity

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• If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Support, Alternatives, Terrorist

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 15, 2009.

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• The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.

  J.R. Miller

  Rocks, Land, Sorrow

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• I learned to cook by watching and helping my mother in the kitchen. I also learned by trial and error. Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

  Nina Dobrev

  Mother, Errors, Risk

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

  Jane Jacobs

  Errors, Cities, Design

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.6, Vintage

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• Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Daughter, Mother, Atheist

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

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• As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Self, Doubt, Permanent

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• I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.

  Michael Jackson

  Media, Citizens, Ugly

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If you are accused of being associated with terrorism, which could mean you are an Arab- American and you've sent e-mails to a relative in the Middle East, you should get your day in court, and I think you should get a lawyer and a trial, and I think most Americans agree to that.

  Rand Paul

  Mean, Thinking, Middle East

  "Sen. Rand Paul on top congressional issues; pivotal moment in the battle over gay marriage". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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• A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Men, Player

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

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• Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Military, Order, Law

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• Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
  Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled;
  Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm
  Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

  John Milton

  Hurt, Unjust, May

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.33

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