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"Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances."
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"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later."
"Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor."
"The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are."
"When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on."
"There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman."
"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."
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