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“In all things preserve integrity and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments and give thee an humble...”
“Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.”
“He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.”
“It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.”
“I have brightness in my soul which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!”
“Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.”
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“Who hath not known ill fortune never knew himself or his own virtue.”
“When things come to the worse they generally mend.”
“Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.”
“When it is dark enough you can see the stars.”
“Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.”
“I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline the sensations but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly to try to und...”
“All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations if they are accepted.”
“Remorse begets reform.”
“We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.”
“"The world is a wheel always turning " philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low and those who've been low go up higher."”
“Difficulties are things that show what men are.”
“Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something.”
“Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.”
