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Rejoice in adversity even more than in prosperity, for suffering brings forgiveness of sin.
Adversity | Character | Forgiveness | Prosperity | Sin | Suffering | Wisdom | Forgiveness |
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.
Adversity | Affliction | Character | Depression | Mind | Misfortune | Misfortune |
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Prosperity proves [tries] the fortunate, adversity the great.
Adversity | Character | Prosperity |
In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.
Adversity | Better | Character | Man | Prosperity |
Prosperity begets friends; adversity proves them.
Adversity | Character | Prosperity |
If adversity hath killed his thousands, prosperity hath killed his ten thousands; therefore adversity is to be preferred. The one deceives, the other instructs; the one is miserably happy, the other happily miserable; and therefore many philosophers have voluntarily sought adversity and commend it in their precepts.
Adversity | Happy | Prosperity | Wisdom |
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
Adversity | Change | Hope | Prosperity | Wisdom |
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Admiration | Adversity | Distress | Wisdom |
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful and amid surrounding gloom, hopeful amidst desponding circumstances, happy in God when there is nothing else to make us happy; he who does this has indeed made great advances in the divine life.
Adversity | Circumstances | Gloom | God | Happy | Life | Life | Nothing | Submission | Suffering | Will | Wisdom | God |