Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Adversity
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.
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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
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