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Show Passing Comment On Trivialities Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes some-times the trial of extraordinary graces. M. Henry Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. Hazlett Consider how much more you . often suffer from your anger and grief ,than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. Marcus Antonius All that is human must retrograde ret-rograde if it does not advance. Gibbon I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes |