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Exlpore more Adversity quotes
"Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional."
"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick
"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."
"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."
"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more."
"Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous."
"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."
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