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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace
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A man is a god in ruins.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Saadi
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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
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A stumble may prevent a fall.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson
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Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
E. W. Howe
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
Thomas à Kempis
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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
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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.
Søren Kierkegaard
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Samuel Johnson
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Walter Scott
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Oprah Winfrey
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Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Og Mandino
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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
Mary Caroline Richards
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Any port in a storm.
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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Les Brown
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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Horace
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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
Thomas à Kempis
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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Homer
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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. -- Isaiah 48:10
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca the Younger
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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G. K. Chesterton
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry Kissinger
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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. -- Mathew 7:13-14
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
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Every burden is a blessing.
Robert H. Schuller
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca the Younger
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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine of Hippo
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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
George MacDonald
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
Ben Jonson
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Henry Fielding
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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Marcus Aurelius
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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
H. G. Wells
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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.
Anne Frank
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Samuel Johnson
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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.
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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.
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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Robert Collier
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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.
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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Heraclitus
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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Les Brown
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Ryszard Kapuściński
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Khalil Gibran
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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop
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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
Simone Weil
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
James Russell Lowell
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Seneca the Younger
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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth
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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
Arnold H. Glasgow
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf
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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Khalil Gibran
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. Chesterton
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer
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Only entropy comes easy.
Lewis Mumford
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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
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