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Adversity: Quotations from Burning Words

God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.— JOHN FLAVEL,

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience.— BISHOP HORNE

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.— HORATIUS BONAR

How full of briers is this working-day world!— SHAKSPEARE

For one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. -— THOMAS CARLYLE