"The nearer the dawn the darker the night."
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"They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?"
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"Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way."
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."
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"The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him."
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"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."
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"men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success"
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"Only entropy comes easy."
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"Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him."
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"The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure."
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"The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me."
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"Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power."
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"To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered."
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"But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man."
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"A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success"
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"True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God."
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"Adversity is the first path to truth."
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"Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence."
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"Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us."
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"If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death."
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