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Letter "A" » Adversity
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity
is not without comforts and hopes."
Author: Francis Bacon
About: Adversity
". . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks."
Author: Bible
About: Adversity
"In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity
consider."
Author: Bible
About: Adversity
"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."
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
About: Adversity
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can
stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
Author: Thomas Carlyle
About: Adversity
"Aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crush'd or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around."
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
About: Adversity
"Thou tamer of the human breast,
Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best!"
Author: Thomas Gray
About: Adversity
"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.]"
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
About: Adversity
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a
man's character, give him power."
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
About: Adversity
"Adversity reminds men of religion.
[Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]"
Author: Titus Livy
About: Adversity
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