Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Adversity
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All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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