Trials Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Trials


Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,— And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep—and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,—the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun. E. B. Browning—Fourfold Aspect.	1
The child of trial, to mortality And all its changeful influences given; On the green earth decreed to move and die, And yet by such a fate prepared for heaven. Sir Humphrey Davy—Written after Recovery from a Dangerous Illness.	2
’Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again. If at first you don’t succeed, Try, try, try again. W. E. Hickson—Try and try again.	3
But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger. Longfellow—The Sifting of Peter. St. 7.	4
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck’d. Milton—Paradise Regained. Bk. 2. L. 228.	5
There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below. Spurgeon—Gleanings among the Sheaves. Cross-Bearers.	6
As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. Spurgeon—Gleanings among the Sheaves. Privileges of Trial.	7
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface. Spurgeon—Gleanings among the Sheaves. The Use of Trial.	8