Many Thoughts of Many Minds- 2

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.--SCHILLER.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. --CHAPIN.

Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.--HEBREWS 12:6.

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.--LYTTON.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor.--BACON.

There is healing in the bitter cup.--SOUTHEY.

The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction. --CHENEVIX.

In this wild world the fondest and the best,Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd. --CRABBE.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.--HORACE.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. --PROVERBS 24:10.

On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; In every rill a sweet instruction flows.--DR. YOUNG.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. --BOLINGBROKE.

Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,But most chastises those whom most he likes.--POMFRET.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.--WASHINGTON IRVING.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.--HORATIUS BONAR.

ADVERSITY.--Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.--COLTON.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.--WHIPPLE.

Our acts make or mar us;--we are the children of our own deeds. --VICTOR HUGO.

When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.--J. SHIRLEY.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.--COLTON.

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.--CARLYLE.

Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as by prince's son.
--DRYDEN.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.--LOWELL.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.
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Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act, in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
--LONGFELLOW.

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