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Letter "A" » Adversity
«He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.»
«Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them»
«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»
«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»
«Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war»
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