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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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"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
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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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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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"I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat."
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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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"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."
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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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"Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional."
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"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
Life
"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
Integrity
"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."
Responsibility
"We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war."
Conflict
"Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves."
Truth
"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
Adaptation
"Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route."
Happiness
"Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones."
Recognition
"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."
Knowledge
"The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power."
Power
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