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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. – Josh Billings

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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God cant help but smile on it. – Josh Billings

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Theres a great power in words, if you dont hitch too many of them together. – Josh Billings

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Theres lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they havent got time to enjoy it. – Josh Billings

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. – African Proverb

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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. – Charles C. West

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Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10 – Bible

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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. – Ingmar Bergman

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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so. – Isabel Allende

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