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"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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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."
"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."
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."
"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
"Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
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