"What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily."
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"Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord."
"A fair trial would have been no trial at all."
"No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great."
"A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception."
"Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial."
"A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial."
"Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial."
"Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!"
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes."
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them]."
"Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love."
"Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law."
"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."
"The question is not why good people have trials, but how shall good people respond when they are tried?"
"No matter what trials we face, Christ never leaves us. He is with us every step of the way!"
"Trials can be hard, if you don't know God."
"Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself."
"We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case."
"Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."