"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."

Adversity, Old, Prosperity

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"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."

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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."

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"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

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"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"There is no education like adversity."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

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"He who does not tire, tires adversity."

Martin Farquhar Tupper, English Writer

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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

Man

"The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other."

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"A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time."

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"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man."

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"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."

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"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."

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"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."

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"Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it. There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's observation, what he finds good and of what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health."

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"Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth."

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