A Quote by Nicholas Ling
Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
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.
Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.
Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
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.
Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2): for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us sympathize with them with all our heart.
