In time of prosperity consider how you will bear adversity.
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
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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.
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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.
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In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one amongst twenty.
In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty, In time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis Bacon in Of Adversity
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Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.
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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
quote by James Keller
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I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.
quote by Kin Hubbard
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Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
quote by King Solomon
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He who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
quote by Publilius Syrus
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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.