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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.


Rose Kennedy
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
There is in every 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
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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
Simon Newcomb
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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
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Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.


Aeschylus
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.


Cesare Pavese
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I tasted freedom and I really liked it.


Phil Lynott
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.


Billie Holiday
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill
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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.


Maurice de Vlaminck
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I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.


Olympia Snowe
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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.


Napoleon Bonaparte
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.


S. I. Hayakawa
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The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Molly Ivins
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.


Wayne Dyer
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I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.
Nell Newman
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Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
Giotto di Bondone
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