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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis BaconProsperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis BaconIf thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
seneca the youngerProsperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
publilius syrusAromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow. But crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver GoldsmithThe good are better made by ill, as odours crushed are sweeter still.
samuel rogersIn the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.
How full of briers is this working-day world!
If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
thomas carlyleProsperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
publilius syrusIt is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.
sydney smithFor in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Anicius Manlius Severinus BoethiusAdversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience.