RICHARD CHENEVIX
Irish poet and scholar (1774 - 1830)
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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.
- [Adversity]
The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above
it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction.
- [Affliction]
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