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"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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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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"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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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
"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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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."
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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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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
People
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man
"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
Power
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
Life
"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
Life
"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."
Reflection
"My dear friend, clear your mind of can't."
Friendship
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
Knowledge
"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."
Happiness
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
Hope
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