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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on! ~Author unknown, c.1920


So often in life a new chapter awaits. You ride off into the sunset and discover it's the sunrise. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Let your strongest muscle be the will. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Seven Seventy Seven Sensations, 1897


Never get discouraged at difficulties... When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Last Days in Cloudland," Oldtown Folks, 1869


There should be no tear on your cheek, dear, had my hand the access to brush it away. ~Emily Dickinson, 1881


If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Marie Register Weedn (1929–2015), Flavia and the Dream Maker, 1988, https://flavia.gallery


The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief... ~William Shakespeare, Othello, c.1604  [I, 3, Duke of Venice]


The frost which kills the harvest of a year, saves the harvests of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust. Wars, fires, plagues, break up immovable routine... There is a tendency in things to right themselves... The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes the errors of planets, and the fevers and distempers of men, self-limiting. Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. Without war, no soldier; without enemies, no hero... All the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity, to draw thence new nobilities of power... ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way," The Conduct of Life, 1860


We won't break, Mary. We look very small, but the reed can carry weight. ~Emily Dickinson, 1862


A mere word of cheer, in the shadow of night,
      When discouragement darkens the way,
Will illumine our hearts with the glorious light
      Of a hopeful and sun-brightened day.
~W. Dayton Wegefarth (1885–1973), "The Bright Things of Life"


The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~Captain C. C. Scott, as quoted in Forbes, 1932


Friend o' Mine:  I should like to send you a sunbeam, or the twinkle of some bright star, or a tiny piece of the downy fleece that clings to a cloud afar. I should like to send you the essence of a myriad sun-kissed flowers, or the lilting song, as it floats along, of a brook through fairy bowers. I should like to send you the dew-drops that glisten at the break of day, and then at night the eerie light that mantles the Milky Way. I should like to send you the power that nothing can overthrow — the power to smile and laugh the while a-journeying through life you go. But these are mere fanciful wishes; I'll send you a Godspeed instead, and I'll clasp your hand — then you'll understand all the things I have left unsaid. ~W. Dayton Wegefarth (1885–1973)


When failure confronts us and darkens our goals,
      How we long for the clasp of a hand;
It is then that we cry from the depths of our souls
      For a friend who can just understand.
~W. Dayton Wegefarth (1885–1973), "The Bright Things of Life"


If we possess our why of life we can put up with almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R.J. Hollingdale


Not in the time of pleasure
      Hope doth set her bow;
But in the sky of sorrow,
      Over the vale of woe.
Through gloom and shadow look we
      On beyond the years:
The soul would have no rainbow
      Had the eyes no tears.
~John Vance Cheney, "Tears," 1892


That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. ~James K. Feibleman, The Way of a Man: An Autobiography, 1969


This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~Winston Churchill, speech, 1941


Defeat may serve as well as victory
To shake the soul and let the glory out.
When the great oak is straining in the wind,
The boughs drink in a new beauty, and the trunk
Sends down a deeper root on the windward side.
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief
Can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come
To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
~Edwin Markham, "Victory in Defeat," c.1908


Adversity is the first path to truth... ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819


It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Fortune knocks but once at any man's door, but misfortune has much more patience. ~20,000 Quips & Quotes, Evan Esar, 1968


Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace


The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ~Max Lerner, 1957


God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. ~Henry Ward Beecher


It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. ~William Faulkner

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