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A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
King Solomon
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
Sa'Di
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Rosalind Russell
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
Anne Bradstreet
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Adversity is a stimulus.
James Broughton
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Elvis Presley
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace
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