Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is 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.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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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.
quote by Elvis Presley
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Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.
quote by Mike Huckabee
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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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The Harder They Come
Well they tell me about the pie up in the sky.
Waiting for me when I die.
But between the day your born and when you die.
They never seem to hear even your cry.
So as soon as the sun will shine.
Im gonna get my shine out whats mine.
And then the harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all.
The harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all.
Well the opus are trying to keep me down.
Trying to drag me under-ground.
And they think that they have got the battle won.
Oh! I say forgive them lord the do not what theyve done.
So as soon as the sun will shine.
Im gonna get my shine out whats mine.
And then the harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all. (what I say, now what I say)
The harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all.
(yeah!)
(yeah!)
Well Ill keep on fighting for the things I want. (for the things I want.)
Though I know that when you dead you gone.
But Id rather be a free man in my grave.
Then living as a puppet or a slave.
So as soon as the sun will shine.
Im gonna get my shine out whats mine.
And then the harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all. (its true)
Oh! the harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all.
Oh! the harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all. (what I say, now what I say)
The harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all.
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The harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all.
Oh! the harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all. (yes.)
The harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all. (what I say.)
The harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all.
Oh! the harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all. (what I say.)
The harder they come, the harder they fall.
One and all.
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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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Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
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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In time of prosperity consider how you will bear adversity.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
He that considers in prosperity; will be less afflicted in adversity.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
He who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.
Prosperity makes freinds, adversity tries them.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
quote by Rose Kennedy
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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.