#sever

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones. ↗

— Kathryn Hulme

#friends #god #his #lukewarm #more

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. ↗

— John Hume

#class #controlled #difficult #discriminatory #districts

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#enthusiasm #everything #ideas #perseverance #real

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#after #already #did #doing #get

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. ↗

— Terry Brooks

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On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#basic #book #each #hand #hold

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. ↗

— George Catlin

#beautifully #best #continent #equipped #finest

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#although #career #changes #extremely #had

The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#considered #emancipation #fully #had #him

We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#illegally #know #million #new #new york