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“The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.”

Wells Action Energy Water Consciousness Duty Victory Comfort Determination Trials Luxury Accomplished Midst Magnificent Calmness Repose Tempest Felicity

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters

“Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.”

Important Seems Duty Trials Agents Preparation Enterprise Severe

Author:Edward Thomson

“Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the discretion to be exercised on such an occasion is not a wild but a sound discretion, and to be confined within those limits within which an honest man, competent to discharge the duties of his office, ought to confine himself. And that discretion will be best exercised by not deviating from the rules laid down by our predecessors; for the practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.”

Men Form Law Sound Practice Honest Duty Ought Limits Office Court Trials Occasions Remembered Application Confined Competent Discretion Honest Man Predecessors Discharge

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.”

Life Soul Play Use Dream Reality Spiritual Life Is Games Our Lives Duty Relation Noble Selfish Senses Flying Trials Worn Toil Insignificant Worn Out Ascension Weavers

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.”

Care Law Judging Duty Evidence Take Care Criminals Trials Jury Verdict

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to walk with Him, to work for Him, and to win souls to Him. The last year of the century, it may be the last of our lives! A happy year will it be to those who, through every path of trial, or up every hill of difficulty, or over every sunny height,, march on in closest fellowship with Jesus, and who will determine that, come what may, they have Christ every day.”

“Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties”

Men Faith Justice Duty Trials Heroic

Author:Elizabeth Blair Lee

“If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us. In the long run He never leaves decent folk in the lurch. Often He may test them, He may send trials upon them, but in the long run He always lets His sun shine upon them once more and at the end He gives them His blessing.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.”

Men Has Beens Done Suffering Work Duty Difficulty Inspired Trials Shore Tides Exhausted Tidy Greatest Man

Book:Character. Repr

Source: Character. Repr