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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon

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I doe hold it, in the Royall ordering of Gardens, there ought to be Gardens, for all the Moneths in the Yeare: In which, severally Things of Beautie, may in then in Season. – Francis Bacon

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I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. – Elizabeth Taylor

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The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. – Aeschylus, The Suppliant Maidens

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Watch a man in times of… adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. – Lucretius, On the Nature of Things

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Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. – Stanislaus I, Maxims

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