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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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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."
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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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"Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron."
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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
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"Fire tries gold misery tries brave men."
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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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"Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless."
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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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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Life
"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
Wealth
"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
Future
"The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them."
Destiny
"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
"Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."
Wisdom
"A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers."
Society
"Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of the world you may find yourself stationed, you will find that place, whatever it may be like, a hospitable home. Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there."
Philosophy
"Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
Philosophy
"A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach."
Wellness
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