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"You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself."
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"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up."
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"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
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"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
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"Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person's inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living."
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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."
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"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
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"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."
Madness

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Life

"All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within."
Nature

"How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, and it is pleasing precisely wherein it does harm."
Relationship

"If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks."
Humor

"Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us."
Philosophy

"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day."
Wisdom

"Time heals what reason cannot."
Wisdom

"The best ideas are common property."
Knowledge

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis."
Life
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