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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

And these vicissitudes come best in youth, For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow, But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

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

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me, But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course.

His overthrow heaped happiness upon him, For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity, My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.