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

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Anthony Trollope

Source

Orley Farm

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

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

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But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg Address

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American Civil War American politics
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Abraham Lincoln
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Gettysburg Address
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1863 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Gettysburg Address." At the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery. 19 Nov. 1863, Gettysburg, PA, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Another quote about Adversity

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

Charles Bukowski

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Adversity

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Charles Bukowski
Language
English
Time
1994 1990s 20th century
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Bukowski, Charles. How Is Your Heart. c. 1994.

Another quote from 1862

The vague, crepuscular time; the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

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Middle age

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Ivan Turgenev
Source
Fathers and Sons
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1862 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. "Отцы и дети [Fathers and Sons]." The Russian Messenger, 1862.

Current Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons, translated by Richard Freeborn. Oxford University Press, 2008.