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Adversity

«He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.»
Author: Cesare Pavese (Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator) | About: Adversity
«Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them»
Author: Ethiopian Proverb | About: Adversity, Advice, Giving, Listening, Teachers and teaching
«He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later»
Author: Henry Fielding (Novelist, Playwright) | About: Adversity | Keywords: bear in mind, dejected, heroically, transport, transported, transporting, transports
«For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.»
Author: Thomas Mann (Essayist, Novelist) | About: Adversity | Keywords: adverse, aggression, fatalities, fatality, gracefully, poised
«Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Adversity, Friendship | Keywords: tie
«Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller (Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Adversity, Morality, Prosperity, Virtue | Keywords: continuous, preserved, School of, The school
«He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Adversity, Belief, Overcoming | Keywords: fewest, motive power, sailor, steer
«Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | About: Adversity, Happiness | Keywords: intercept, intercepting, intercepts, sunbeam
«He that considers in prosperity; will be less afflicted in adversity»
Author: Proverb | About: Adversity | Keywords: afflicted, considers
«Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war»
Author: Seneca | About: Adversity | Keywords: Great War, rejoice, soldiers
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