"Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility."
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"Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy."
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"Employment and hardships prevent melancholy."
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"What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this."
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"I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example."
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"I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be."
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"Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship."
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"Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice."
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"I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life."
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"Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach."
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"If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing."
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"The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime."
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"Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships."
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"It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love."
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"Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit."
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"She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth."
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"I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it."
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"To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship."
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"It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another."
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"It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures - it’s inevitable. But unless the spirit of the last year, here and elsewhere in the country and around the globe, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high."
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