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Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.
Hatred
Proverb

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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Repentance
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Adversity
Saadi

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Adversity
Walt Schmidt

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Adversity
Sir Walter Scott

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Adversity
Seneca

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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Adversity
Seneca

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Adversity
Seneca

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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Adversity
Sirach

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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Prosperity
Publilius Syrus

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Adversity
Mark Twain

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.
Adversity
Source Unknown

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
Adversity
William A. Ward

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
Friends and Friendship
Brigham Young

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Adversity
Zig Ziglar

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun