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

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

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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."

Elvis Presley, American Musician

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

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me."

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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet."

Denis Waitley, American Writer

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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French Politician

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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

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

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."

"Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me."

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."

"I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet."

"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."

"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."

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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."

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

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