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| Adversity Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. | Abbott | Henry |
| 2 | The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life. | Addison | Joseph |
| 3 | Adversity, like winger weather, is of use to kill those vermin which the summer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish. | Arrowsmith | |
| 4 | Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. | Atterbury | |
| 5 | No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. | Author Unknown | |
| 6 | Come then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. | Author Unknown | |
| 7 | 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..of the voyager. | Author Unknown | |
| 8 | Adversity exasperates fools, dejects cowards, draws out the faculties of the wise and industrious, puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill, awes the opulent, and makes the idle industrious. | Author Unknown | |
| 9 | There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth. | Author Unknown | |
| 10 | Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road. | Author Unknown | |
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