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Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES, The Suppliant Women
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
- But seas do laugh, snow white, when rocks are near.
JOHN WEBSTER, The White Devil
The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It’s to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech, Jun. 11, 1928
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.
JULIUS CHARLES HARE, Guesses at Truth
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
ANNE BRADSTREET, Meditations Divine and Moral
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity, on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart -- not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
BARACK OBAMA, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20. 2009
If capitalism persists for several more centuries, as seems to be highly likely, then from the vantage point of the future, capitalism may be seen as the system responsible for the transformation of the human condition from one of mass subsistence to mass prosperity.
VICTOR D. LIPPIT, Capitalism
When things go well, you should be suspicious. When things go exceptionally well, start sniffing for the dog crap on the bottom of your shoe.
- We should not speak of one that prospers well
- As happy, till his life have run its course,
- And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift
- In shortest time has oft laid low the state
- Of one full rich in great prosperity,
- When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.
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