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For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there

1. “For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.”

Adversity, Prosperity, Strength, Rare, Challenge

Rich as we are in biography a well-written life is

2. “Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.”

Biography, Life, History, Record, Rare

Our desires cut across one another and in this confused

3. “Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.”

Desires, Happiness, Existence, Rare, Confused Longing, Misaligned Joy

It is rare that one can see in a little

4. “It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.”

Alexandre Dumas

Boy Promise, Girl Threat, Rare View, Promise, Threat, Rare

Live as you like best and your character will take

5. “Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.”

Personal Freedom, True Character, Freedom, Character, Good, Rare

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense

6. “There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

Common Sense, Rare Wisdom, Wisdom, Sense, Common, Rare

Well for us in history where goodness is a rare

7. “Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”

Goodness Greatness, Rare Pearl, Goodness, Greatness, Pearl, Rare

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful

8. “To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.”

Error Truth, Rare Beauty, Truth, Error, Rare, Beauty

People with new ideas people with the faintest capacity for

9. “People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Idea Innovation, Rare Newcomers, Ideas, Innovation, Newcomers, Rare