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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know h

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. – Coventry Patmore

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To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. – Coventry Patmore

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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. – Seneca

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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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Bad is never good until worse happens. – Danish Proverb

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