"When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength."
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"There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain."
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"I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something."
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"Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward"
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"I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand."
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"God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best."
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"It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance."
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"In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away."
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"Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime."
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"They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain."
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"Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance."
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"Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by."
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"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
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"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."
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"Tis looking downward makes one dizzy."
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"One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief."
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"We must endure Adversity Bravely and cheerfully."
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"I've had an unhappy life, thank God."
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"The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance."
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"A little adversity can't hold me down."
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