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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

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Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

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It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

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Adversity is the mother of progress.

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Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

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We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

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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.

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Much of your pain is self-chosen.

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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

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People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

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In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

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If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

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It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

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When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

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Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

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