Adversity

(83 votes)   If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet
1612-1672, British Puritan Poet

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(82 votes)   As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(82 votes)   May you get what you wish for.

Chinese proverb

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(81 votes)   Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy

William Shakespeare

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(81 votes)   The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Sextus Propertius
c.48-c.15 BC, Italian Latin Elegiac Poet

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(81 votes)   When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him.

Hindu Proverb

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(80 votes)   That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

James K. Feibleman

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(79 votes)   We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(78 votes)   Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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(78 votes)   The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(78 votes)   The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

Source Unknown

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(78 votes)   Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Charles ''Tremendous'' Jones
American Motivational Speaker, Author

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(78 votes)   We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. ''In your patience possess your souls.''

Oswald Chambers
1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author

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(77 votes)   When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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(76 votes)   Every rose has its thorn.

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