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Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES, The Suppliant Women
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
- But seas do laugh, snow white, when rocks are near.
JOHN WEBSTER, The White Devil
The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It’s to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech, Jun. 11, 1928
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.
JULIUS CHARLES HARE, Guesses at Truth
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
ANNE BRADSTREET, Meditations Divine and Moral
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