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«Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.»
Author: James Buckham
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«The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you?re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
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disappointments, good for you, knocks, sadness, tested
«The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.»
Author: Roy Wilkins
(Statesman)
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disappointments, disengagement, long jump, sweet talk, talk of, The Hard
«Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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adolescence, arrest, arrested development, class feeling, cowardly, deduce, deduced, disappointments, dominate, Eton, glories, ruling, ruling class, school system, self-conscious, sentimental, theory of, The Ruling Class, undergone
«YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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disappointments, period, sixty-five, sixty, three hundred, Three hundred and sixty
«The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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achievements, blur, blurred, blurring, blurs, crises, crowded, details, disappointments, landmark, landmarks, remarkable, surprises
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