“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”
Thomas Carlyle
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“For a hundred that can bear adversity, there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.”
Thomas Carlyle
“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
Robert Ingersoll
“In the day of prosperity rejoice, but in the day of adversity consider: God hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.”
Anonymous
The Holy Bible: King James Version
“I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.”
Thomas Browne
“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.”
Baha'u'llah