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Josh Billings

"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight."

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"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight."

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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."

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"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."

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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."

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"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."

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"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up."

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"Misfortunes never come singly."

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"Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men."

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"I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale."

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"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."

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"Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb."
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"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."
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"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."
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"As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them."
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