Great determination can overcome most odds.
We learn from the things we suffer.
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.
If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.