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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

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

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.

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.

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

Losers bring money into the market which is necessary for the prosperity of the trading industry.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

Money can't buy you happiness. It just helps you look for it in more places.

My goal is to replicate prosperity with integrity.

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

New Living Translation And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.