Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
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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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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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Harness Real Potential
Harness real potential
Utilised energy effectively.
Austerity drive not advisable
Austerity drive opposite of growth
Mind it, austerity is
Not inevitable.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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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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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
quote by King Solomon
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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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
quote by Joni Mitchell
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
quote by Publilius Syrus
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Be frugal in prosperity, fear not in adversity.
Prosperity gets followers, but adversity distinguishes them.
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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When you're enjoying prosperity, be wary of adversity.
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.