Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
quote by Francis Bacon
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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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Adversity
Adversity, adversity, how strange is your fate.
To most it’s loss and sorrow compounded by a spate
Of shallow glances, lost chances
Nourishing doubts and fears,
With ignominious ignorance,
Washed down by gushing tears.
For these sad souls adversity is a cruel happenstance.
Even before its advent they were afforded little chance.
Though adversity, intrinsically favors neither side,
Some souls advance… even enhance their dance,
While all others continue their downward slide.
This august group knows adversity by another name.
Adversity and opportunity to them sound much the same.
Travails, trauma, thunder clouds are all ways they learn.
Journeys unclear and dangers near they miss not a turn
In their effort to bestow good fortune they have received
So less fortunate souls may sense what it is to be relieved.
poem by Gregory Huyette
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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
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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Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in 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.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted 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.
He who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
quote by Rose Kennedy
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Prosperity gets followers, but adversity distinguishes them.
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
He that considers in prosperity; will be less afflicted in adversity.
When you're enjoying prosperity, be wary of adversity.