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"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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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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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
Society
"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
Man
"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die."
Heart
"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
Change
"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."
Death
"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."
Life
"Purity of heart is to will one thing."
Heart
"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved."
Society
"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
Music
"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."
Age
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