GEMS OF THOUGHT
USES OF ADVERSITY.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. —Fielding.
It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.—Chinese proverb.
Life’s ills are its chief recompense; they develop hidden strength. —Mary Baker Eddy.
Many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of a great calamity.— Jeremy Taylor.
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.—Colton.
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man • most easily becomes acquainted with himself, then, especially, being free from flatterers.— Samuel Johnson.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 5
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