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Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man

Watch a man in times of… adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. – Lucretius, On the Nature of Things

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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. – Charles C. West

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Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. – William James

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The dark and the light are braided and bound. – Marc Ian Barasch

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If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991

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