Hosea Ballou Quotes

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Prosperity makes few friends.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Good luck has its storms.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

I have had sufficient experience of the freaks of fortune; and as I have never trusted greatly to prosperity, I shall suffer less inconvenience from adversity.

Prosperity is just around the corner.