Talk:Prosperity

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 * Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.
 * Hosea Ballou


 * It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
 * Beecher


 * Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
 * Beecher


 * The increase of a great number of citizens in prosperity is a necessary element to the security, and even to the existence, of a civilized people.
 * Buret


 * He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
 * Charles Caleb Colton


 * Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.
 * Cicero


 * Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man.
 * Hooker


 * We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment.
 * Landor


 * They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat themselves at the altar.
 * South


 * Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
 * Tacitus


 * Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
 * Mark Twain


 * Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of your being one in adversity.
 * Zimmerman