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“Who hath not known ill fortune never knew himself or his own virtue.”
“Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something.”
“Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.”
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
“Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terrific bills.”
“Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.”
“When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got mode...”
“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.”
“When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.”
“Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.”
“Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.”
“I have always grown from my problems and challenges from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.”
“Those things that hurt instruct.”
“Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems or keep repeating them over and over.”
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”
“If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome.”
“The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”
“Prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.”
“Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.”
