#ordeal

The ordeals of others . . . prepare us, and later become the compass . . . in our time of ordeal. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. ↗

— John Berryman

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She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

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