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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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Personal Development
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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Personal Development
"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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Personal Development
"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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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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Personal Development
"Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron."
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Personal Development
"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."
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Personal Development
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
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Personal Development
"Fire tries gold misery tries brave men."
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Personal Development
"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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"The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy."
Power
"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid."
Adversity
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
Reading
"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more."
Wisdom
"Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous."
Age
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