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It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

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It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

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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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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

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It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

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I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

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Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

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Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.

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

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Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!

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They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

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We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

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Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

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

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Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

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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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