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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
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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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"I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it."
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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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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
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"Rules and models destroy genius and art."
Art
"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."
Death
"A wise traveler never despises his own country."
Nation
"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."
Thought
"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
Friendship
"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."
Self
"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."
Quality
"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."
Christian
"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."
Concern
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."
Difference
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