Trials

(261 votes)   There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

George Moore
1852-1933, Irish Writer

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(111 votes)   The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(102 votes)   For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. [Psalms 66:10]

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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(92 votes)   Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

John Bunyan
1628-1688, British Author

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(91 votes)   It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.

Charlie Brown
Peanuts Comic Strip Character

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(88 votes)   All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(86 votes)   I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Rose F. Kennedy
1890-1995, Mother of President John F. Kennedy

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(85 votes)   Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

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(84 votes)   A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(82 votes)   All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(80 votes)   Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1]

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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(77 votes)   If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

Howard Gossage

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(75 votes)   To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

A. W. Tozer
?-1963, American Preacher

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(75 votes)   When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

Jean Genet
1910-1986, French Playwright, Novelist

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(72 votes)   A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.

Clifford Irving

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