Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.—Horace.
In this wild world the fondest and the best
Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.
—Crabbe.
The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction.—Chenevix.
There is healing in the bitter cup.—Southey.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor.—Bacon.
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.—Lytton.
Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.—Hebrews 12:6.
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.—Chapin.
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.—Schiller.
Affectation.—Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of many a comparatively wise man.