"People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within"

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler on adversity
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"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable."

Havner, Vance on adversity
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. ~Giuseppe Mazzini "

Mazzini, Giuseppe on india   

"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

Churchill, Winston on honesty
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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time."

Churchill, Winston on government
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"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

Churchill, Winston on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opportunity
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"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended -- and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."

Frost, Robert on family