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I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
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If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 4 -
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is greater.
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852), On the Conversations of Lords -
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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