xed with a little
adversity.--HOSEA BALLOU.

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.

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

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.
--CICERO.

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

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
--COLTON.

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.

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.

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.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.--VAUVENARGUES.

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

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

PROVIDENCE.--The Providence of God is the great protector of our life
and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from
danger.--SPURGEON.

I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.
--WHITTIER.

The decrees of Providence are inscrutable. In spite of man's
short-sighted endeavors to dispose of events according to his own
wishes and his own purposes, there is an Intelligence beyond his
reason, which holds the scales of justice, and promotes his
well-being, in spite of his puny efforts.--MORIER.

Divine Providence tempers his blessings to secure their better effect.
He keeps our joys and our fears on an even balance, that we may
neither presume nor despair. By such compositions God is pleased to
make both our crosses more tolerable and our enjoyments more wholesome
and safe.--W. WOGAN.

He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the
designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy
W