A Quote by George Farquhar

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

George Farquhar

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Adversity Makes Most Poets Prosperity Question Tis Whether

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George Farquhar
Irish - Dramatist
1678 - April 29, 1707

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

Francis Quarles

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Hugo

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

Charles R. Swindoll

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.

Brigham Young

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Aristotle

This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Livy

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

Epictetus

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

Euripides

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

Confucius

I think fundamentally, the question of whether or not Christianity makes sense - whether it withstands scrutiny, whether the evidence supports it or hurts it - always comes down to the Resurrection.

Lee Strobel

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.