Adversity
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Adversity is the universal human experience of facing obstacles and setbacks.
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- ...abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity...
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1719.
- It is said that adversity introduces us to ourselves. This is true of a nation as well. We see our national character in our ability to rally together in times of difficulties, celebrations and in eloquent acts of sacrifice.
- Josefa Iloilo, "Opening address to the National Day of Prayer in Suva", May 15, 2005.
- was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
- What does not kill him, makes him stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (1888), "Why I Am So Wise", 2; this is often paraphrased as: What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- For one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
- Thomas Carlyle, p. 8.
- God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.
- John Flavel, p. 7.
- In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.
- Horatius Bonar, p. 7
- Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience.
- Bishop Horne, p. 7
- How full of briers is this working-day world!
- William Shakespeare, p. 7.
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- Adversity has ever been considered as the date in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, particularly being free from flatterers.
- Johnson.
- Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct, but as adversity leads us to think properly of our state, it is most beneficial to us.
- Johnson
- Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
- Shakespeare.
- 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, lite the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.
- Sir P. Sidney.
- Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
- Barry Cornwall. http://treasury-of-thought.blogspot.com/2009/05/adversity.html