Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Quotations

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

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

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.