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"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
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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."

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."

"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."

"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."

"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."

"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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