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

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

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I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

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It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

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Only entropy comes easy.

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But we must not suffer over the suffering.

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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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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

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Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

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Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

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

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Adversity is the mother of progress.

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

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

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