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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

God's will concerning financial prosperity and abundance is clearly revealed in the Scriptures.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals and groups can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Governments never supply prosperity.  At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work.  Usually they suppress it.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

... in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage.

In terms of our region, what we need to ensure is that the rise of China [is] conducted in a manner that does not disturb the security and the relative harmony of the region upon which China's prosperity depends. Now - now, that requires careful diplomacy, it requires balancing.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.

It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.

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.

It is every Indian's dream that J&K is happy & there is prosperity. We have to work for this, be it in power or not in power.

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

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

It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

I've looked at all of Hitler's speeches thinking that there's gotta be one where he's 'I'm Hitler!', but there weren't any. His speeches were all about hope and prosperity - he ran on a platform of peace and prosperity. Hitler speeches that makes him sound like a villain are pretty hard to find, he was very detached from what he was doing, he kept himself compartmentalised from it.