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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 Quotes |
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“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends”
John Churton Collins Quotes |
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“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
Buddha Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
Proverb Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember”
Seneca Quotes |
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“Beware of the friend who was once your foe.”
Proverb Quotes |
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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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“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 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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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a
man's character, give him power.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maxim (99)
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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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“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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“Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in
war.
[Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, quam fortes
milites bellis.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: De Providentia (IV)
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“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to
his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy
of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
[Lat., Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi
suo Deus. Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna
compositus.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Lib. de Divina Providentia
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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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