Adversity Quotes

• "When reduced by adversity, a man forgets the lofty tone and supercilious language of prosperity."
  By: Unknown
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• "The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly welded by the fiercest fire."
  By: Unknown
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• "As the ant does not wend her way to empty barns, so few friends will be found to haunt the place of departed wealth."
  By: Unknown
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• "All is well as long as the sun shines and the fair breath of heaven gently wafts us to our own purpose; but if you will try the excellency and feel the work of faith, place the man in a persecution."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us."
  By: Jonathan Swift, On the Death of Dr. Swift, a paraphrase of Rochefoucauld's "Maxim"
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• "Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him."
  By: Laurence Sterne
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• "Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress."
  By: Herbert Spencer
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• "There is healing in the bitter cup."
  By: Robert Southey
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• "Adversity, sage useful guest, Severe instructor, but the best, It is from thee alone we know Justly to value things below."
  By: William C. Somerville
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• "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."
  By: Sydney Smith, Sermon on the Duties of the Queen
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• "The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at IV, i)
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