
As quoted in "Literary witness to century of turmoil" in China Daily (24 November 2003) http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/24/content_284041.htm
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2000s, (2008)
As quoted in "Literary witness to century of turmoil" in China Daily (24 November 2003) http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/24/content_284041.htm
“If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace.”
On the fact that difficulties serve a purpose - "Bewitching Favour" http://www.africanews.com/site/Bewitching_Favour/list_messages/27081 Africa News (September 22 2009)
My Day (1935–1962)
Context: It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)
Greeley on Lincoln (1893), edited by Joel Benton, p. 78.
1890s
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 9.
From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.
“Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!”
Address to US forces after the of Battle of Chapultepec in the Mexican-American War (September 1847) as quoted in The Life and Military and Civic Services of Lieut-Gen. Winfield Scott (1861) by Orville James Victor, p. 106.