“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.