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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
Category: Adversity Author: Samuel Butler
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Category: Adversity Author: Andre Gide
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If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
Category: Adversity Source: Russian Proverb
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Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.
Category: Adversity Author: William Shakespeare
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People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
Category: Adversity Author: William McFee Source: Casuals of the Sea
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
Category: Adversity Author: William Hazlitt
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Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Category: Adversity Author: Maltbie D Babcock
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I bear a little more than I can bear.
Category: Adversity Author: Elinor Hoyt Wylie Source: Angels and Earthly Creatures
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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
Category: Adversity Author: Coventry Patmore
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May you get what you wish for.
Category: Adversity Source: Old Chinese Curse
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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Category: Adversity Author: Walt Schmidt
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Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.
Category: Adversity Author: Lucretius
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"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it.
Category: Adversity Author: Lewis Carroll Source: Through the Looking Glass
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Category: Adversity Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Category: Adversity Author: Billie Holiday
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Category: Adversity Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
Category: Adversity Author: Antonio Porchia
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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
Category: Adversity Author: Author Unknown
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Category: Adversity Author: Francis Bacon
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Category: Adversity Author: Norman Vincent Peale
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