Quotations on Adversity | Quotations: 30 | Pages: 3
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So tho ... |
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by Thomas Carlyle
(December 4, 1795 - February 4, 1881) |
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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by Victor Hugo
(February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885) |
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. |
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by Oliver Goldsmith
(November 10, 1728 - April 4, 1774) |
Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. |
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Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried. |
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by Mark Twain
(November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910) |
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity another man's I mean. |
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by Charles Caleb Colton
(1780 - 1832) |
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. |
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God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. |
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Authors with quotations on topic Adversity:
Bible (7)
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Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel (1)
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Carlyle, Thomas (1)
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Churchill, Sir Winston (1)
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Colton, Charles Caleb (2)
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Goldsmith, Oliver (1)
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Gray, Thomas (1)
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Hazlitt, William (2)
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Hugo, Victor (1)
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Irving, Washington (1)
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (2)
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Shakespeare, William (7)
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Swift, Jonathan (1)
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Twain, Mark (1)
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Unknown (1)
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