It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm

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Benefits of adversity Adversity Hard work

Author

Anthony Trollope

Source

Orley Farm

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861-1862.

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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

Matthew Arnold

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Freedom of thought Thoughts

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Matthew Arnold
Source
Democracy
Genre
Political literature
Language
English
Time
1861 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Democracy." The Popular Education of France: With Notices of that of Holland and Switzerland. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861.

Current Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Democracy." Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Another quote about Adversity

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

Ernest Shackleton

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Adversity

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Ernest Shackleton
Medium
Personal journal
Language
English
Time
1908 1900s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Shackleton, Ernest. Diary entry. 11 Dec. 1908.

Another quote from 1862

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln

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American Civil War Slavery

Author

Abraham Lincoln
Source
Second Annual Message to Congress
Medium
Speech
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1862 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Annual Message to Congress." 1 Dec. 1862, US Congress, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.