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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.”
“Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.”
“Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.”
“It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.”
“You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.”
“A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.”
“From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
“Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”
“By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so.”
“Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.”
“It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.”
“When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.”
“The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.”
“We only think when we are confronted with a problem.”
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
“Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.”
“Mistakes are often the best teachers.”
“Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.”
