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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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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"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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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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"There is no education like adversity."
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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Explore more quotes by C. S. Lewis
"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
Truth
"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
Morality
"Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years."
Knowledge
"God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least."
Faith
"It's not a question of God `sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud."
Spiritual
"The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning."
Spiritual
"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
Society
"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
Inspirational
"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
Creativity
"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."
Emotion
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