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Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. - William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (Camillo at IV, iv) Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. - George Bernard Shaw Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride. - Lydia Huntley Sigourney To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots. - Alexander Smith They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat themselves at the altar. - Bishop Robert South Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. - Robert Southey Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) Many are not able to suffer and endure prosperity; it is like the light of the sun to a weak eye,--glorious indeed in itself, but not proportioned to such an instrument. - Jeremy Taylor Prosperities can only be enjoyed by those who fear not at all to lose them. - Jeremy Taylor Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.] - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues, Reflexions (XVII) Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. - John Webster, White Devil (act V, sc. 6) O how portentous is prosperity! How, comet-like, it threatens, while it shines! - Edward Young There is ever a certain languor attending the fulness of prosperity. When the heart has no more to wish, it yawns over its possessions, and the energy of the soul goes out, like a flame that has no more to devour. - Edward Young Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night V, l. 915) Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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