Adversity flatters no man. [ Proverb ]

Courage is adversity's lamp. [ Vauvenargues ]

I repel adversity by valour. [ Motto ]

Adversity, sage useful guest,
Severe instructor, but the best.
It is from thee alone we know
Justly to value things below. [ Somerville ]

Remember to be calm in adversity. [ Horace ]

Adversity reminds men of religion. [ Livy ]

Oh, fear not in a world like this.
And thou shalt know ere long, -
Know how sublime a thing it is,
To suffer and be strong. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Light Of Stars ]

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,
There is healing in the bitter cup. [ Southey ]

Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. [ Hebrews ]

Great faith must have great trials. [ Spurgeon ]

The Good are better made by ill,
As odors crushed are sweeter still. [ Sam'l Rogers ]

Prosperity often presages adversity. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Adversity's sweet milk - philosophy. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

There is no education like adversity. [ Beaconsfield ]

Adversity is the first path to truth. [ Byron ]

Adversity makes wise, though not rich. [ Proverb ]

But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Sifting Of Peter ]

He that has no cross deserves no crown. [ Quarles ]

Sweet are the uses of adversity:
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. [ William Shakespeare ]

Adversity oftentimes leads to prosperity. [ Proverb ]

Many can bear adversity, but few contempt. [ Proverb ]

Great souls are not cast down by adversity. [ Proverb ]

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born,
The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn. [ Gerald Massey, The Kingliest Kings ]

Two powerful destroyers: Time and Adversity. [ A. de Musset ]

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose;
A man I am cross'd with adversity. [ William Shakespeare ]

'Tis good for men to love their present pains
Upon example; so the spirit is eased. [ William Shakespeare ]

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty,
In times of adversity not one in twenty. [ Proverb ]

Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adversity. [ Proverb ]

There is for adversity but one refuge - the tomb. [ De Segoyer ]

In this wild world the fondest and the best
Are the most tried, most troubled and distressed. [ Crabbe ]

Brave men ought not to be cast down by adversity. [ Silius Italicus ]

Through danger safety comes, through trouble rest. [ John Marston ]

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [ Seneca ]

Adversity is easier borne, than prosperity forgot. [ Proverb ]

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. [ Victor Hugo ]

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. [ Pliny the Younger ]

As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace,
He will be in the furnace with them. [ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings among the Sheaves ]

He that swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity. [ Proverb ]

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. [ Bishop Horne ]

Afflictions are but conductors to immortal life and glory. [ Aughey ]

Friendship is a shield that blunts the darts of adversity. [ Mme. de Saint-Surin ]

Heaven oft in mercy smites, even when the blow severest is. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. [ Spenser ]

Prosperity gets followers, but adversity distinguishes them. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity often best discovers vices, and adversity virtue. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity unmasks the vices; adversity reveals the virtues. [ Diderot ]

Great spirits are easy in prosperity and quiet in adversity. [ Proverb ]

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. [ Proverbs ]

Be the same to your friends, both in prosperity and adversity. [ Periander ]

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. [ Bolingbroke ]

Every man holds in his hand a stone to throw at us in adversity. [ Mme. Bachi ]

A friend loveth at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. [ Bible ]

He that considers in prosperity will be less afflicted in adversity. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity. [ Cicero ]

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct. [ Aughey ]

Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [ Seneca ]

A brave spirit struggling with adversity is a spectacle for the gods. [ Seneca ]

Acquaintances are best formed in prosperity; friendships in adversity. [ T. A. Emmett ]

In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed. [ Massey ]

In adversity and difficulties arm yourself with firmness and fortitude. [ From the Latin ]

Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. [ Barry Cornwall ]

God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. [ Aughey ]

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below. [ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings among the Sheaves ]

Prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue. [ Bacon ]

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. [ Plutarch ]

It is not affliction itself, but affliction rightly borne, that does us good. [ Aughey ]

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

In adversity those talents are called forth, which are concealed by prosperity. [ Horace ]

Let me embrace these sour adversities, for wise men say it is the wisest course. [ Shakespeare ]

On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; In every rill a sweet instruction flows. [ Dr. Young ]

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. [ Seneca ]

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [ Cicero ]

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. [ Hosea Ballou ]

To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]

As adversity lends us to think properly of our state, it is most beneficial to us. [ Johnson ]

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. [ Washington Irving ]

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. [ Lactantius ]

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; in adversity, nothing is so difficult. [ Epictetus ]

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. [ Colton ]

Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes. [ Pomfret ]

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [ Rochefoucauld ]

It is noble and so regarded both among nations and individuals to keep faith in adversity. [ Silius Italicus ]

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. [ Ovid ]

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who, can endure a wretched life. [ Martial ]

It is easy in adversity to despise death; real fortitude has he who can dare to be wretched. [ Seneca ]

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Prayer is the dew of the soul ravaged by adversity, and oftentimes the only bread of the poor. [ A. Poincelot ]

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. [ Fielding ]

Marriage is a tie that hope embellishes, that happiness preserves, and that adversity fortifies. [ Alibert ]

When reduced by adversity, a man forgets the lofty tone and supercilious language of prosperity.

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched. [ Martial ]

Clouds are the veil behind which the face of day coquettishly hides itself, to enhance its beauty. [ Richter ]

God's corrections are our instructions; His lashes our lessons, and His scourges our schoolmasters. [ Aughey ]

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. [ Bacon ]

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. [ Theophrastus ]

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. [ Colton ]

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend: but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things. [ Epictetus ]

As the harbor is the refuge of the ship from the tempest, so is friendship the refuge of man in adversity. [ Demophilus ]

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

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love. [ Henry Taylor ]

Adversity tries men, and virtue strives for glory through adverse circumstances, undeterred by hard obstacles. [ Silius Italicus ]

Be sure to preserve an unruffled mind in adversity, as well as one restrained from immoderate joy in prosperity. [ Horace ]

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly welded by the fiercest fire. [ Colton ]

As the ant does not wend her way to empty barns, so few friends will be found to haunt the place of departed wealth.

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. [ E. H. Chapin ]

Friendship throws a greater luster on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and anxieties. [ Cicero ]

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. [ Hazlitt ]

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. [ Lytton ]

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him. [ Sterne ]

Adversity is a great schoolmistress, as many a poor fellow knows that has whimpered over his lesson before her awful chair. [ Thackeray ]

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity. [ Thomas Carlyle ]

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears. [ Charles S. Robinson ]

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. [ Chapin ]

Mr. Bettenham said that virtuous men were like some herbs and spices, that give not out their sweet smell till they be broken or crushed. [ Bacon ]

A summer friendship, whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in our prosperity, with the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity. [ Massinger ]

The scholar only knows how dear these silent yet eloquent companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. [ Washington Irving ]

To speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroic virtue. [ Bacon ]

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. [ Balzac ]

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface. [ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings among the Sheaves ]

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must never undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. [ Washington ]

A weak mind sinks under prosperity as well as under adversity. A strong and deep one has two highest tides, when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. [ Hare ]

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour. [ Bacon ]

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. [ Dr. Chalmers ]

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported by the latter. [ Fielding ]

Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation. [ Edward Thomson ]

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition. [ From the French ]

He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend. [ Saadi ]

Tribulation worketh patience: and patience, experience; and experience, hope. That is the order. You can not put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]

These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [ Cicero ]

No man is more miserable than he that hath no adversity. That man is not tried, whether he be good or bad, and God never crowns those virtues which are only faculties and dispositions, but every act of virtue is an ingredient into reward - God so dresses us for heaven. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, per aspera ad astra, over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, "per aspera ad astra", over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate, depend upon books. [ Richard Aungervyle ]

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasn: Nourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies. [ Dr. Chalmers ]

Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love! No friendship so pure, so devoted; the wild storm of adversity and the bright sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the great white throne, and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. [ R. Smith ]

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. [ Washington Irving ]