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"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances."
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"Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light."
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"Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."
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"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
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"It is not beauty that makes you strong--it is adversity."
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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
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"Adversity is a stimulus."
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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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"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."
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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
Man
"Life is warfare."
Life
"The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity."
Heart
"I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness."
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"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."
Power
"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"
Life
"The wish for healing has always been half of health."
Health
"Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."
Mind
"It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth."
Ethics
"And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long " he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about."
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