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

—Hazlitt
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill, and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

—Unknown
Poetry is not a certain this or a certain that. With or without rhyme. Beat or academic. Uplifting or depressing. Accessible or obscure. Poetry is all. At its heart, simply, a condensed form. Free to violate the strict rules of prose. Free to explore the subterranean passage of mind and soul. We must allow it to be whatever it needs to be. Only then will we realize the vitality of its song.

—Laurence Overmire
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

—Francis Bacon
Your difficulty is not contained, primarily, in the situation which gave rise to it, but in the mental state with which you regard that situation and which you bring to bear upon it.

—James Allen
With the wind of tribulation God separates, in the floor of the soul, the wheat from the chaff.

—Molinos
It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow’s burden is added to the burden of to-day, that the weight is more than a man can bear.

—George MacDonald
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God’s favor. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

—Francis Bacon
When we sleep the soul communicates with what is external to us; when we awake the body is set free. Our intercourse with others then leads to various activity, and daily there is the striving of mind with mind.

—Chuang Tzu
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
Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge brings wisdom.

—Welsh Proverb
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

—Unknown
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.

—Leighton
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all of Americans are in peril.

—Harry S. Truman
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

—Samuel Johnson
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians ever imagine that they are guilty themselves....The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastely, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.…As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

—C. S. Lewis
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When a government takes over a people's economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs.

—Maxwell Anderson
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.

—John Neal
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

—Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)

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