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• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Adversity, Men

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  There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  Washington Irving

  Encouraging, Kindness, Lying

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.39, e-artnow

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• The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fog, Weather, Connections

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.

  Ernest Holmes

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.459, Penguin

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• Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

  Periander

  Depression, Good Life, Adversity

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• We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

  Abdul Kalam

  Young Generation, Giving, India

  "Lok Sabha Debates" by India. Parliament, (p. 45), 2003.

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• Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

  Aeschylus

  Life, Men, Inspire

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

  Indira Gandhi

  Believe, Economic, Indivisible

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

  Jose Marti

  Fire, Hatred, Abjection

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

  Groucho Marx

  Hard Times, Society, Hard

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• Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  Henri Rousseau

  Luxury, Rich, Poor

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• When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ends, Prosperous

  "Hercules on Mount Oeta". Tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 713, 1st century.

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• It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Adversity, Mind, Bears

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 26, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 637-38, 44 B.C..

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• Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

  Robert Southey

  Fortune, Endure, Bores

  Robert Southey, Thomas More (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes”, p.212

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• Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

  Hosea Ballou

  Pride, Cost, Individual

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• The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

  Francis Atterbury

  Powerful, Temptation, Littles

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• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Success, Spiritual

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.85, Hay House, Inc

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• It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

  Norm MacDonald

  Adversity, Desire, Ruins

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• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Money, Generosity

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Breeders, Insolence

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

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• Prosperity makes few friends.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Few Friends

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Adversity, Demand, Moderation

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• It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

  Joel Osteen

  Debt, Pay, Bills

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• Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Heart, Vision

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

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Heroes and Hero-Worship". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.

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