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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Philosophical
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. – Francis Bacon

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Men
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Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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Adversity

Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better. – Author unknown

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Adversity

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by

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Adversity

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Adversity

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Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. – Kurt Vonnegut

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It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody. – Spike Lee

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My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you. – Jenna Jameson

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When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? – Julie Burchill

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