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adversity blessing sometimes
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. Charles Caleb Colton
adversity extremes knows
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
adversity prosperity shrinks
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
adversity half known
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
adversity doe needs
Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them. Charles Stanley
adversity fire secret
Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible. Charles Spurgeon
adversity suffering
But we must not suffer over the suffering. Alan Watts
adversity opportunity leader
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving. Chip Conley
adversity self challenges
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. Chiang Kai-shek
fall rain wind
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Charles Dickens
fall mind excess
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.
fall velocity vacuums
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
fall scary house
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
greatest history medical success universal
Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history. Michael Specter
greatest proud
We've always been proud Saskatoonians and Saskatchewanians, ... There really are so many things to celebrate. It's the greatest place in the world. Lorne Calvert
greatest-victory long able
My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all. Audrey Hepburn
greatest-treasure happy-marriage fortune
A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune. Eden Phillpotts
greatest-fear
I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself. Beth Orton
greatest human learned peace rights solutions war
Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions. John Prendergast
greatest moments musical record
Making that record was one of the greatest musical moments in my life, Warren Haynes
greatest-wealth labor direct
This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly. Brigham Young
greatest-wealth today ears
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. Brian Tracy
possession goods insatiable
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. David Hume
possession struggle valuable
We're competitive now. We struggle to score. That's why every possession is so valuable to us.
possession power tendency time
There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it. John C. Calhoun
possession religion
One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
possession humans human-beings
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession. Albert Camus
possession values
Understand that the only possession of any value is life. Andre Gide
possession
Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them. Dan Davis
possession
Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly. David Platt
possession proclamation
Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.
reach struggle stuff
When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is. Herbie Hancock
reach seek
When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,
reaches
You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
reach time
We are going to take the appropriate time to reach our long-term aspirations.
reaches technology transcends
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
reaches whose
My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17. Najib Razak
reached
I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that. Evelyn Glennie
reaching vision
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. Casey Kasem
reach
Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal, Evander Holyfield
shelf space sure
The shelf space has been shrinking. We underinvested in making sure that hasn't happened, and that's one of the things we're going to fix.
shelf space sure
The shelf space has been shrinking, ... We underinvested in making sure that hasn't happened, and that's one of the things we're going to fix.
shelf sure
They want to make sure RU-486 is on the shelf of every doctor's office. It's really disgusting.
tallest waves
We all had a go and we probably surfed the tallest waves of our lives. Greg Long
tallest top
That's why they're top Division-I athletes. They get the fastest, quickest, tallest players.