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“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.”
Walter Scott
,
Ivanhoe
“Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
Francis Bacon
,
The Essays of Francis Bacon
“When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
Haruki Murakami
,
Kafka on the Shore
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
William Shakespeare
,
Henry VI, Part 3
“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”
Thomas Carlyle
,
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.”
Nelson Mandela
,
Long Walk to Freedom
“God of Jacob! it is the meeting of two fierce tides—the conflict of two oceans moved by adverse winds!”
Walter Scott
,
Ivanhoe
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