Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Attributed in various sources, for example in Infamous. Appears to be derived from Carlyle, but there are similar quotes about Lincoln in his biographies.
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Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity.
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Horatio Alger (1883), Abraham Lincoln: The Backwoods Boy; or, How a Young Rail-Splitter became PresidentAbraham Lincoln
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Abraham Lincoln
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
The big test in football is how a captain leads under conditions of adversity.
Jack Gibson
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. (translator unknown).
Seneca the Younger
Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn’t take, their constant bickering and smallness, it’s like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don’t scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.
Donald Barthelme
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