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Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iv, Line 269...
PROSPECT, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
-- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. -- William Hazli...
Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste
and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
Prosperity is our God given right.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 872
Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great. -- Pliny the Younge
Prostate: Flat on your back...

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