Adversity Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Contemplate Contemplate Adversity Contemplating Friend Friend Privilege Friendship Privilege Privilege Contemplate
Being your friend is not about agreeing with you on everything. It's about telling you the truth when no one else will, even if… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
That's what friends do - support each other as best that they can no matter the circumstances. — Jim Ross Copy Share Image
In friendship we have complicity in everything that happens to us. The friend gives us comfort and joy. The scolding and hug. The hand… — Anne Copy Share Image
That FRIEND who claim they do anything for you. but yet talk behind your back. — KushSoulja Copy Share Image
We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent. — Eustace Budgell Copy Share Image
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
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He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
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Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
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“Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
