A Quote by Julius Charles Hare

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

Julius Charles Hare

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Adversity Mind Prosperity Weak Well

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Julius Charles Hare
English - Priest
September 13, 1795 - January 3, 1855

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.

David Hare

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

David Hare

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

A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]

Horace

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Epicurus

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

William Hazlitt

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

Livy

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

Henry Fielding

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

William Penn

Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.