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«I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity»
«If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.»
Author: Pythagoras
| Keywords:
calm, depth, fluid, fluids, heat, height, prosperity, rough, smooth, soft, solid, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
God
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adversity, careless, Despaired, despairing, despairs, prescience, prosperity, senseless, suffer, Things to Come, understanding
«If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.»
«Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Adversity,
Education
| Keywords:
adversity, ornament, ornamented, prosperity, refuge
«Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
anxieties, brighter, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, prosperity, sharing
«General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
eastern, Europe, gate, Gorbachev, liberalization, Mr Gorbachev, prosperity, secretaries, secretary, soviet, Soviets, Soviet Union, tear, tearing down, tear down, union, wall
«Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Adversity
| Keywords:
adversity, monsters, prosperity
«A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him who makes it»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ear, hears, jest, jesting, prosperity, The Ear
«If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
behave, helpful, human race, indefinite, material, peaceful, period, prolonged, prosperity, wishes
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