A Quote by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
English - Politician
September 16, 1678 - December 12, 1751

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

Alvin Toffler

Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

Andy Andrews

There's nothing like adversity to fuel the fire.

Carson Palmer

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

James Prescott Joule

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

Seneca the Younger

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Martha Graham

Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still!

Alice B. Toklas

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

George Santayana

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

James E. Faust

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Lou Holtz

Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

Charles Spurgeon

There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other.

Gilbert Adair

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

Bob Edwards

Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.

Dennis Kucinich

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