Overcoming Adversity

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross is in our composition. - Charles Caleb Colton

There is no excellency without difficulty. - Ovid

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. - Portuguese Proverb

Growing in wisdom

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
-Charles Caleb Colton