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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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Personal Development
"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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Personal Development
"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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Personal Development
"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."
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Personal Development
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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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
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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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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"A bad peace is even worse than war."
Peace
"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
Truth
"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
Pleasure
"Things forbidden have a secret charm."
Temptation
"We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched."
Wealth
"In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous."
Corruption
"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."
Battle
"When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad."
Man
"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
Adaptation
"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man."
Nature
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