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David Hare

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."

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"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."

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"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."

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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."

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"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has."

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

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

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

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"He who does not tire, tires adversity."

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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."

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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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