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Abraham Heschel
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Agnes Macphail
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
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Billy Graham
Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.
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Cicero
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials
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Confucius
The diamond cannot be polished without friction, not man perfected without trials.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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Gail Sheehy
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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George Macdonald
God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.
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Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.
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Hubert Humphrey speech, 1977
The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life--the children; those who are in the twilight of life--the aged; and those who are in the shadows of life--the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
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Jerome P. Fleishman
Our trials are tests; our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.
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John Milton Aeropagitica
Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
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Lydia M. Child Letters from New York v. 1
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
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Mildred White Struven
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go though the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
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Seneca
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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