#prosper

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success. ↗

— Jerry Gillies

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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