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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."	Anne Dudley Bradstreet
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks."	Charlotte Bronte
"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it."	Dr. Joyce
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."	Henry Peter Brougham
"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion."	William Cullen Bryant
"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."	Buddha
"It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best."	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."	Edmund Burke
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."	Thomas Carlyle
"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all."	Miguel de Cervantes
"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."	Miguel de Cervantes
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage."	William Ellery Channing
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"The three things most difficult are: to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure."	Chilo
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."	Churton Collins
"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity."	Charles Caleb Colton
"It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old."	Charles Caleb Colton
"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later."	Confucius
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier	Arthur Koestler	Baltasar Gracian
Benjamin Franklin	Buddha	B. J. Gupta
Carl Gustav Jung	Charles Caleb Colton	Charlotte Bronte
Chilo	Churton Collins	Confucius
Daisaku Ikeda	Dr. Joyce	Dr. Samuel Johnson
Dr. Thomas Fuller	Dwight David Eisenhower	Edmund Burke
Edward C. Banfield	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Eli Khamarov
Emmet Fox	Epictetus	Epicurus
E. R. Bulwer-Lytton	Frederick Douglass	General Charles De Gaulle
George Eliot	George Moore	George Stanley McGovern
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Helen Adams Keller	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Henry Peter Brougham	Homer	Honoré de Balzac
Horace	Horace Mann	Isak Dinesen
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jeff Greenfield
Jim	Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Maynard Keynes	John Norley
John Quincy Adams	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Heller
Jose Ortega y Gasset	Josh Billings	Kahlil Gibran
Laertius Diogenes	Lee C. Bollinger	Louis
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Marquise du Deffand
Matthew Arnold	Michael Leuning	Miguel de Cervantes
Nadia Boulanger	Napolean Hill	Niccolo Machiavelli
Nikos Kazantzakis	Og Mandino	Phyllis Bottome
Phyllis McGinley	Proverbs 17:17 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rene Descartes	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robyn Davidson
Roger Bannister	Roger John	Ryszard Kapuscinski
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Loren	Stephen William Hawking
Søren Aaby Kierkegaard	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Alva Edison	Walter Anderson	Walt(er) Elias Disney
Warren G. Bennis	William Hazlitt	William Cullen Bryant
William Ellery Channing	Wystan Hugh Auden	(Arthur) Clive