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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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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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"Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light."
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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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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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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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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"Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"Fire tries gold misery tries brave men."
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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"Neither blame or praise yourself."
Blame
"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them."
Enemy
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
Wisdom
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
Friendship
"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues."
Persistence
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Poetry
"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
Adversity
"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
Health
"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
Chance
"When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door."
Friendship
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