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Prosperity

«Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.»
Author: Abert F. Geoffrey | About: Prosperity
«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.»
«Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.»
«No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second»
Author: Harold Lindsell | About: Nations, Prosperity | Keywords: prosper
«Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity»
Author: Periander | About: Adversity, Prosperity | Keywords: moderate, prudent
«Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.»
«Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue»
«Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.»
Author: Billy Graham | About: Adversity, Comfort, Prosperity | Keywords: enriched
«Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress; and then becomes more bright and c»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | About: Prosperity | Keywords: high-and-mighty, puffs
«Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Prosperity

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