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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."
"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances."
"I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine."
"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Johnson
"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."
"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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