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"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."
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"A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity."

"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up."

"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."

"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."

"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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"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather."

"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."
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