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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
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Personal Development
"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."
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Personal Development
"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."
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Personal Development
"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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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."
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"It is not beauty that makes you strong--it is adversity."
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"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."
Trust
"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."
Nature
"The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction."
Education
"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."
Heart
"One must steer, not talk."
Talk
"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."
Generosity
"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."
Life
"A great mind becomes a great fortune."
Fortune
"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
Books
"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."
Earth
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