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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
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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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"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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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
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"Fire tries gold misery tries brave men."
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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."
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"Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless."
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"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
Friendship
"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
Literature
"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
Religion
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
Acting
"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."
Heart
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."
Confidence
"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased."
Art
"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
Friendship
"No young man ever thinks he shall die."
Man
"Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."
Soul
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