It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live,
than to be loved by them. And this not on account of any gratification
of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than
love.--_Arthur Helps._
Admiration is a forced tribute, and to extort it from mankind (envious
and ignorant as they are) they must be taken unawares.--_James
Northcote._
~Adversity.~--If adversity hath killed his thousands, prosperity hath
killed his ten thousands; therefore adversity is to be preferred. The
one deceives, the other instructs; the one miserably happy, the other
happily miserable; and therefore many philosophers have voluntarily
sought adversity and so much commend it in their precepts.--_Burton._
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.--_Bishop
Horne._
Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter
rain,--cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that
season have their birth the flower and the fruit, the date, the rose,
and the pomegranate.--_Walter Scott._