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Topic·Learning from adversity✕clear

Play · History (play)

Let me embrace the sour adversaries, For wise men say it is the wisest course.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 3 · 1595

★ 2.0

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn, and laughter.

William Hazlitt

The Indian Jugglers · 1821

★ 3.5

Novel · Historical

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans · 1826

★ 3.8

Autobiography and memoir

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.

Edward Abbey

Desert Solitaire · 1968

★ 5.2

Play · Comedy (play)

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It · 1616

★ 5.5

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