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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Success Strength Character Soul

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Abraham Lincoln

Light History Honor Down

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Abraham Lincoln

Blue Drink Earth Treasure

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Man You Care Go

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Thomas Jefferson

Strength Hope Business Government

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Business Money Poor Things

I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Life Day God Me

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

Life Back Island First

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

Failure Age White Process

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Thomas A. Edison

Result Go Ahead Worth

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In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

Respect Stress Law Some

'Victory Lap,' even the title. It's the accumulation of trial and error; that's what I represent; trial and error.

Victory Title Even Lap

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Charles Spurgeon

Work God Integrity Honor

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

William Butler Yeats

Soul Energy New Stronger

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Life Death Relationship Failure

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

Only Write About Minutes

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

Happy Lawyer Progress Your

I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses.

Knowledge Believe Judge Facts

My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don't think we had a family dinner where one didn't come up.

Family Childhood Dinner Think

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

Fox Jury Goose Should

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Thomas S. Monson

Courage Face Disappointment Great

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Regret Punishment Fair Full

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Prove Judges Formal Inquiry

Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?

World Without Through Citizen

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

Richard Dawkins

War Them Those Shall

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

Russell M. Nelson

People Lord Chosen His

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