And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
For when they happen at a riper age,
People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
And wonder Providence is not more sage.
Adversity is the first path to truth:
He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,
Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Don Juan (canto XII, st. 50)
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
[Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]
Titus Livy
Quotes , Source: Annales (V, 51)
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In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent to ease us,
Points out some circumstance to please us.
Jonathan Swift
Quotes , Source: On the Death of Dr. Swift, a paraphrase of Rochefoucauld's "Maxim"
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember
Seneca
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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 human haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity
is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
Quotes , Source: Of Adversity
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. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Acts (ch. IX, v. 5)
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity
consider.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. VII, v. 14)
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can
stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture 5)
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Aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crush'd or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: The Captivity (act I)
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Thou tamer of the human breast,
Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best!
Thomas Gray
Quotes , Source: Hymn to Adversity (st. 1)
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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something
which does not displease us.
[Fr., Dans l'adversite de nos meilleurs amis nous trouvons
toujours quelque chose ne nous deplaist pas.]
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Quotes , Source: Maxim (99)
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
Titus Livy
Quotes , Source: Annales (V, 51)
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The Good are better made by Ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
Samuel Rogers
Quotes , Source: Jacqueline (st. 3)
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