Part 36 (1/2)
”If there were no difficulties there would be no success In this necessity for exertion we find the chief source of human advancement,--the advancement of individuals as of nations It has led to e”
”Stick your claws into ham orchestra ”Don't tell me what you like, but what you don't like”
John Hunter said that the art of surgery would never advance until professional e to publish their failures as well as their successes
”Young ht not to expect a perfectly smooth and easy way to the objects of their endeavor or ambition,” says Dr Peabody
”Seldom does one reach a position hich he has reason to be satisfied without encountering difficulties and what ements But if they are properly met, they are not what they seem, and may prove to be helps, not hindrances There is noobstacles”
It was in the Madrid jail that Cervantes wrote ”Don Quixote” He was so poor that he could not even get paper during the last of his writing, and had to write on scraps of leather A rich Spaniard was asked to help him, but replied: ”Heaven forbid that his necessities should be relieved; it is his poverty that makes the world rich”
”He has the stuff in hiood musician,” said Beethoven of Rossini, ”if he had only been well flogged when a boy; but he is spoiled by the ease hich he co desperately to attain what the heart covets
Waters says that the struggle to obtain knowledge and to advance one's self in the world strengthens the ives one independence of thought and force of character
Kossuth called himself ”a tempest-tossed soul, whose eyes have been sharpened by affliction”
As soon as young eagles can fly the old birds tumble them out and tear the down and feathers frolet fits hi of birds, fierce and expert in pursuing his prey
Boys who are bound out, crowded out, kicked out, usually ”turn out,”
while those who do not have these disadvantages frequently fail to ”come out”
”It was not the victories but the defeats of ed Sidenham Poyntz
Almost from the dawn of history, oppression has been the lot of the Hebrews, yet they have given the world its noblest songs, its wisest proverbs, its sweetestprosperity They thrive where others would starve They hold the purse-strings ofs, frosty but kindly, the cold of which will kill the vermin, but will let the plant live”
In one of the battles of the Crih a beautiful garden But fro of water which ever afterward flowed a living fountain Froashes which misfortunes and sorrows make in our hearts, perennial fountains of rich experience and new joys often spring
Don't larieve over lost wealth The Creatorout as long as your wealth stands in the way You must throay the crutches of riches and stand upon your own feet, and develop the long unused h diamond in you which only the hard hits of poverty can polish
God knohere the richest melodies of our lives are, and what drill and what discipline are necessary to bring thes are the rough teachers that bring the tiny acorn to the sturdy oak Fierce winters are as necessary to it as long sule with the ele for its life frooes into the shi+p, that gives it value Without this struggle it would have been characterless, starain would have never been susceptible of high polish The est woods are found not in tropical cliht the frosts and the winter's cold
Many a man has never found himself until he has lost his all
Adversity stripped him only to discover him Obstacles, hardshi+ps, are the chisel and e on the hillside co which disturbs its peace of centuries: it is not pleasant to be rent with powder, to be haain: behold the race and beauty, telling its grand story of valor in the public square for centuries
The statue would have slept in the , and the polishi+ng The angel of our higher and nobler selves would reh quarries of our lives but for the blastings of affliction, the chiseling of obstacles, and the sand-papering of a thousand annoyances
Who has not observed the patience, the calh life by the reversal of fortune or by some terrible affliction?
How reatest strides toward reatest virtues when reverses of fortune have swept away everything they had in the world; when disease had robbed theel in the quarry of our lives, the statue of e, and difficulties and obstacles have squared and chiseled the granite blocks into grace and beauty
Many awhich smote his dearest hopes opened up a new rift in his dark life, and gave hilirave buried his dearest hopes, but uncovered in his nature possibilities of patience, endurance, and hope which he never before dreamed he possessed
”Adversity is a severe instructor,” says Edmund Burke, ”set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill Our antagonist is our helper This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations It will not suffer us to be superficial”