Adversity Quotes

• "The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him."
  By: Laurence Sterne
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• "Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress."
  By: Herbert Spencer
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• "There is healing in the bitter cup."
  By: Robert Southey
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• "Adversity, sage useful guest, Severe instructor, but the best, It is from thee alone we know Justly to value things below."
  By: William C. Somerville
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• "A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure."
  By: Sydney Smith, Sermon on the Duties of the Queen
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• "The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at IV, i)
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• "His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Griffith at IV, ii)
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• "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 thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at I, ii)
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• "Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy."
  By: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
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• "Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part III (King Henry at III, i)
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• "Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
  By: William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
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• "Bold, adversity Cries out for noble York and Somerset, To beat assailing death from his weak legions. And whiles the honorable captain there Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. [Lat., Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi suo Deus. Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna compositus.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Lib. de Divina Providentia
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