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Adversity quotes

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“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

“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

“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

“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“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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Walter Scott (2)
Francis Bacon (1)
William Shakespeare (1)
Nelson Mandela (1)
Haruki Murakami (1)
Thomas Carlyle (1)

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Ivanhoe (2)
The Essays of Francis Bacon (1)
Long Walk to Freedom (1)
Kafka on the Shore (1)
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (1)
Henry VI, Part 3 (1)