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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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"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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Personal Development
"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
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Personal Development
"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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Personal Development
"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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Personal Development
"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor."
Success
"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."
Power
"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
Friendship
"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."
Money
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
Soul
"Anger is a short madness."
Anger
"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."
Hate
"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
Life
"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."
Passion
"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."
Man
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