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  ...the mass of my acquaintance. --BOLINGBROKE.
On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; In every rill a sweet instruction flows. --DR. YOUNG.
When Providence, for secret ends, Corroding cares, or sharp affliction, sends; We must conclude it best it should be so, And not desponding or impatient grow. --POMFRET.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. --PROVERBS 24:10. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.   --HORACE.
In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd. --CRABBE.
The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction. --CHENEVIX.
There is healing in the bitter...   Horace

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