Winston Churchill Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Years Quotes

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

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I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

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Adversity is the midwife of genius

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

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Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

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They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

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What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

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Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

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Only entropy comes easy.

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What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

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