"It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends."
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"Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake."
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"He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him."
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"There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty."
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"Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are with you every time you allow it. We are in every singing bird and in every joyful child. We are part of every delicious pulsing in your environment. We are not dead, and neither will you ever be! You will just get up, one day, and get out of the movie."
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"Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another."
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"People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress."
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"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."
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"Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another."
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"Adversity is a good school."
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"Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood."
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"I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses."
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"I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today."
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"Public calamity is a mighty leveller."
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"And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results."
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"The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value."
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"Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health."
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"A man I am cross'd with adversity."
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"I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be."
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"Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise."
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