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Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would read more
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen
writer to be a spectacle on which the read more
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.
Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
