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Authors:  Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity


"adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity." »Thomas Carlyle 
"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity." »Ben Jonson 
"adversity is the touchstone of friendship." »French Proverb 
"In adversity remember to keep an even mind." »Horace 
"By courage I repel adversity." »Anonymous 
"adversity is the first path to truth." »George Gordon Byron 
"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean." »Mark Twain 
"adversity makes a man wise, not rich." »Romanian Proverb 
"adversity makes men wise but not rich." »John Ray 
"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity." »Chilo 
"Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity." »Napoleon Hill 
"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them." »Publilius Syrus 
"adversity does teach who your real friends are." »Lois McMaster Bujold 
"adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." »Henry Fielding 
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater." »William Hazlitt 
"In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity." »Philemon 
"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." »Seneca, Epistles 
"adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself." »Samuel Johnson 
"Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men." »Seneca 
"In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one." »James Burgh 
"Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater." »William Hazlitt 
"We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity." »Charles Caleb Colton 
"By courage I repel adversity.
(Adversa Virtute Repello)" »
Anonymous 
"adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with." »Leighton 
"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends." »Plutarch 
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." »Abraham Lincoln 
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity." »Plutarch 
"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." »Proverbs 1717 Bible 
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