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Treasure the memories of past misfortunes they constitute our bank of fortitude.

While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings t...

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Were there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything bett...

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by indignities men come to dignities

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the...

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

by indignities men come to dignities

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the...

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

by indignities men come to dignities

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the...

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

by indignities men come to dignities

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the...

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set...

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For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that...

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I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

What does not destroy me makes me strong.

Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, ...

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You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or o...

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George FriedmanThe Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,That one day we shall thank thee perfectlyFor pain and hope ...

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George MacDonaldA Hidden Life and Other Poems

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...

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It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself ev...

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The birth and growth of modern antisemitism has been accompanied by and interconnected with Jewish a...

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The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not l...

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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. ...

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We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...

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I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very ...

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Henry JamesTheory of Fiction: Henry James

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when...

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How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;Every arrow that flies feels the attractio...

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Necessity is often the spur to genius.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain d...

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Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...

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The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher ...

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Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we lo...

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An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all...

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Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been test...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe i...

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I don't deserve this award but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

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James MacDonaldChrist-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recove...

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I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life becau...

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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it...

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I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with peo...

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Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its v...

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My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked ...

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Joe BidenPromises to Keep: On Life and Politics

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

For when God is said by these things to try men and prove them, to see what is in their hearts and w...

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The strong version of the adversity hypothesis might be true, but only if we add caveats: For advers...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

When the world has once begun to use us ill it afterwards continues the same treatment with less sc...

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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to ...

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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mo...

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This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe ther...

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In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your en...

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The most valuable gift I ever received was ... the gift of insecurity ... my father left us. My moth...

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Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't m...

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Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer ...

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Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you ale...

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For every remote miss who becomes stronger, there are countless near misses who are crushed by what ...

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Malcolm GladwellDavid and Goliath: Underdogs

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed...

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In my youth poverty enriched me but now I can afford wealth.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham smoky to the taste thick-skinned and tender inside.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you a...

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We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plun...

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Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a ha...

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Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.