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Adversity Quotes
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
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"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
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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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"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."
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"But hey, what's life without a little adversity?'That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us."
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"Adverse situations used advantageously can offer solutions to problems."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
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"Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron."
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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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"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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"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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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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"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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"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person's inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living."
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"Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional."
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