PROSPERITY QUOTES II

quotations about prosperity

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

JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Guesses at Truth

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Beware the serpent, slyly hid, which stings
The soul with poison of Prosperity.

EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR

"Adversity"

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Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

HOSEA BALLOU

Treasury of Thought

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There is, too, a very great difference in the purpose served both by those events which we call adverse and those called prosperous. For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

lecture in Cleveland, Ohio, February 4, 1932

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All will allow that a change from prosperity to adversity is a trial; and a change from great prosperity to great adversity is a great trial. But a change from adversity to prosperity is as real a trial, as a change from prosperity to adversity; and a change from great adversity to great prosperity is a great trial. The reason why such changes are trials is, because they have a natural tendency to draw forth the affections of the heart, whether they are holy or unholy, friendly or unfriendly to God, who is concerned in every change that takes place. Prosperity is as great a trial of the heart as adversity. Mankind are as naturally disposed to abuse the smiles, as the frowns of divine providence.

NATHANAEL EMMONS

"Deceitfulness of the Heart"


Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

CALVIN COOLIDGE

speech, June 11, 1928

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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Great increase of prosperity sometimes weakens the supports of it.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Weak characters are warped by excessive prosperity.

WALTER MATTHEWS

"Prosperity", Human Life from Many Angles


Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

MARY SHELLEY

Frankenstein

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Prosperity gathers smiles, while adversity scatters them.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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As a crowded stomach retards digestion, so does prosperity retard charity.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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