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George Gordon Byron
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Lou Gehrig Delivers Farewell to Baseball Address at Yankee Stadium
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Frederick Douglass
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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Thomas Paine
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Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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Tacitus
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Even I, who had the tide going out and in before me in the bay, and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get my shellfish -- even I (I say) if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free. It w
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Thomas Carlyle
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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.
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Anonymous
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By courage I repel adversity.
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John Ray
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Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
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Aristotle
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Seneca
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Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
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Romanian Proverb
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Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
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George Gordon Byron
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Boethius
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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William Hazlitt
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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Mark Twain
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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Anne Bradstreet
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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Anne Bradstreet
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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Robert Ferguson
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What can that faith do for him in his need?
It teaches him to bear adversity
With patience that may shame a better creed.
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Proverbs 1717 Bible
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A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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Chinese Proverb
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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Napolean Hill
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Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.
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William Shakespeare
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.
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Walt Disney
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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George Washington
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.
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A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry; But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
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English Proverb
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In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Albert Schweitzer
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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Socrates
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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William A. Ward
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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Churton Collins
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In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.
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William A. Ward
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Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.
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James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
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Washington Irving
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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and
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Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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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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SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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Francis Bacon
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Unknown
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Nothing can be called failure until you accept it as such. You can transmute all past failures and mistakes into assets. Adversity is Nature's method of disciplining people to learn to take possession of their own minds. Greatest blessings often come from the greatest adversities. Study yourself carefully and you may discover that your own emotions are your greatest handicap in the business of accurate thinking.
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Denis Watley
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Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity.
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Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
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By courage I repel adversity.
(Adversa Virtute Repello)
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... sulking and nausea.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
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Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divi
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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"We can easily endure adversity. Another man's I mean." -- Twain
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"A brother is born for adversity." -- Proverbs 17:17
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The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitud
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In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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