William Shakespeare Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Adversity Quotes

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

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A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

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Only entropy comes easy.

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Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward

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From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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A man I am cross'd with adversity.

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I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

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I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

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