February 15
Daily Cheer for All the YearHe never withdraweth His mercy from us: and though He punish with adversity, yet doth He never forsake His people.—II MAC. vi, 16.
Adversity, sage useful guest
Severe instructor, but the best,
It is from thee alone we know
Justly to value things here below.
SOMERVILLE.
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, for, as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
COLTON.
Adversity is a trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
FIELDING.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
CARLYLE.