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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"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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"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
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"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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"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
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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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"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."
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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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"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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"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
"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
"Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous."
Age
"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
"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more."
Wisdom
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