6 Metaphors for adversity

But, apart from those poor, miserable crawlers in the gutters of life, who live by habitual and unnecessary beggary, great and continued adversity is a strong test of the moral tone of any people.

Adversity is the criterion of friendship.

Prosperity seems to have been the blessing of the Old Testament, as adversity was the blessing of the New.

But adversity is never to them mere adversity; it "Doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange"; and in the crucible of character their suffering itself is transmuted into song.

Miss Howe tells my charmer, that adversity is her shining- time.

Seneca has written a Discourse purposely on this Subject, in which he takes Pains, after the Doctrine of the Stoicks, to shew that Adversity is not in itself an Evil; and mentions a noble Saying of Demetrius, That nothing would be more unhappy than a Man who had never known Affliction.

6 Metaphors for  adversity