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Charles Caleb Colton

"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."

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"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."

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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."

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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."

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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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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

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"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."

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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."

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"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."

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"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."

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"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."

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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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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
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"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
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"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
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"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
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"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
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"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost."
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"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
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