Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
—Carlyle.
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Adversity does not take from us our true friends; it only disperses those who pretended to be so.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
—Horace.
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He who never was acquainted with adversity, has seen the world but on one side, and is ignorant of half the scenes of nature.