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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."
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances."
"I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine."
"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."
"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."
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"Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive."
"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."
"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do."
"To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes."
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