To further illustrate the significance of adversity, I would like to take an empirical evidence as a case in point: surveys conducted by some biographers have demonstrated that almost all of the great men and celebrities have built their mansion of success on the bedrock of adversity.
I went past the rosebushes to Baba's mansion, Hassan to the mud shack where he had been born, where he'd lived his entire life.
Mansion after mansion, made of air, rose, higher, broader, finer, and each in its turn vanished away; until now in these latter great days, our dreamers were in fancy housed, in a distant region, in a sumptuous vast palace which looked out from a leafy summit upon a noble prospect of vale and river and receding hills steeped in tinted mists-- and all private, all the property of the dreamers; a palace swarming with liveried servants, and populous with guests of fame and power, hailing from all t
A SONG OF A PRINCE DEPOSED Du Fu Along the wall of the Capital a white-headed crow Flies to the Gate where Autumn Enters and screams there in the night, Then turns again and pecks among the roofs of a tall mansion Whose lord, a mighty mandarin, has fled before the Tartars, With his golden whip now broken, his nine war-horses dead And his own flesh and bone scattered to the winds.
All love that has not friendship for its base ,is like a mansion built upon sand .
Sotheby's agent Colette Harron cites an 1870 riverfront mansion now on the market in Essex, Conn.
This well-preserved Elizabethan mansion, finished in 1588, is the most ornate in England and a tourist-drawing attraction itself.
The moon rounds the red mansion Stoops to silk-pad doors, Shines upon the sleepless Bearing no grudge, Why does the moon tend to be full when people are apart?
Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005 All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Old Anthony Rockwall, retired manufacturer and proprietor of Rockwall's Eureka Soap, looked out the library window of his Fifth Avenue mansion and grinned.
At the corners of four streets he hands his pasteboard to the North Wind, footman of the mansion of All Outdoors, so that the inhabitants thereof may make ready.
It's here, right now, whether you live in a mansion or a rent-controlled apartment.
One day he was passing a splendid mansion, with a crowd of servants lounging in the courtyard.
To satisfy his curiosity he went up to some splendidly dressed servants who stood at the door, and asked one of them the name of the master of the mansion.
Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005 All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
It's All Relative A person who lives in a $100,000 house in a neighborhood of $75,000 homes experiences living in a mansion.
They stopped at Lord Grubbe's stone mansion in Aarhuus.
The wind sweeps over Christianshavn, around the mansion of Kai Lykke, which now is a penitentiary.
(1866) THERE was an old mansion surrounded by a marshy ditch with a drawbridge which was but seldom let down:—not all guests are good people.
The great dog by the yard gate of a nobleman's mansion sits proudly on the top of his kennel when the sun shines, and barks at every one that passes; but if it rains, he creeps into his house, and there he is warm and dry.
