For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.—SIRACH.
Though losses and crosses be lessons right severe,
There's wit there ye'll get there, ye'll find no other where.
BURNS.
Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.—HAZLITT.
"Adversity is the prosperity of the great."
No man ever worked his way in a dead calm.—JOHN NEAL.
"Kites rise against, not with, the wind."
"Many and many a time since," said Harriet Martineau, referring to her father's failure in business, "have we said that, but for that loss of money, we might have lived on in the ordinary provincial method of ladies with small means, sewing and economizing and growing narrower every year; whereas, by being thrown, while it was yet time, on our own resources, we have worked hard and usefully, won friends, reputation, and independence, seen the world abundantly, abroad and at home; in short, have truly lived instead of vegetating."
