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Letter "A" » Adversity
«Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.»
Author: Susan Taylor
| About:
Adversity,
Faith
| Keywords:
crisis, crisis in, encourage, growth, nourish, Seeds, The Crisis
«There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.»
«There is no education like adversity»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Adversity,
Education
| Keywords:
adversity
«The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.»
Author: Epicurus
| About:
Adversity,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
difficulty, gain, glory, greater, pilots, reputation, skillful, storming, storms, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, tempests, The Tempest
«Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.»
«The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Mankind,
Social service
| Keywords:
relieve, struggling
«There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth»
«Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.»
«The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.»
«Sweet are the uses of adversity.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Adversity
| Keywords:
adversity, sweet, uses
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