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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.


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BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv...
BEN ELTON It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,...
BEN BERGOR A good poet's made as well as born.
BEN JOHNSON Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JOHNSON Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t...
BEN HECHT Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND