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Quotes about Misfortunes

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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. Votes: 4

Aesop

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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. Votes: 4

Aesop

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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. Votes: 4

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. Votes: 4

Michel de Montaigne

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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Votes: 4

Charles Dickens

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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Votes: 4

Socrates

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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Votes: 4

Voltaire

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Votes: 4

Aristotle

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this. Votes: 4

Simone Weil

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Misfortunes make us wise Votes: 3

Mary Norton

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Misfortunes make us wise. Votes: 3

Mary Norton

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Misfortunes never come singly. Votes: 3

Anne Frank

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Misfortunes often sharpen the genius. Votes: 3

Ovid

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Misfortunes should always be expected. Votes: 3

Samuel Johnson

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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power. Votes: 3

George Stillman Hillard

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But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship ... Votes: 3

Charlotte Charke

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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man. Votes: 3

Cesare Pavese

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Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. Votes: 3

Horace

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Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. Votes: 3

Seneca the Younger

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. Votes: 3

Oscar Wilde

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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. Votes: 3

Michel de Montaigne

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Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes. Votes: 3

Marjorie Fleming

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The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition. Votes: 3

Eliza Haywood

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Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition Votes: 3

French Proverb

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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Votes: 2

Jean de la Bruyere

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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Votes: 2

Lucius Accius

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Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others. Votes: 2

Jackie Stewart

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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Votes: 2

Napoleon Hill

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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Votes: 2

Ambrose Bierce

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. Votes: 2

Aristotle

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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. Votes: 2

Epicurus

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. Votes: 2

Washington Irving

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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. Votes: 2

Ambrose Bierce

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. Votes: 2

A. C. Benson

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us Votes: 2

Voltaire

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Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. Votes: 2

Charles Caleb Colton

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Votes: 2

Oscar Wilde

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. Votes: 2

William James

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. Votes: 2

Virgil

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Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. Votes: 2

Amy Lowell

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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. Votes: 2

James Russell Lowell

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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. Votes: 2

Jane Austen

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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others. Votes: 2

Marquis de Sade

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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. Votes: 2

Sam Levenson

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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. Votes: 2

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Votes: 2

Gautama Buddha

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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Votes: 2

Lydia M. Child

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Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities. Votes: 2

Harvey Mackay

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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster. Votes: 2

Deepak Chopra

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A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. Votes: 2

George Mason

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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Votes: 2

Walter Anderson

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Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! Votes: 2

Jules Verne

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? Votes: 2

Thomas Jefferson

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. Votes: 2

Epictetus

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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. Votes: 2

Moliere

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There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been. Votes: 2

Hugh Jackman

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. Votes: 2

Plato

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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. Votes: 2

Marquis de Sade

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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. Votes: 2

Lydia M. Child

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Keep your misfortunes to yourself. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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See your misfortunes as blessings. Votes: 0

Marshall Sylver

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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. Votes: 0

Alphonse Karr

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Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone. Votes: 0

Charles Dickens

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Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone. Votes: 0

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. Votes: 0

Euripides

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Most misfortunes are the results of misused time. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes. Votes: 0

Madeleine de Scudery

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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. Votes: 0

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes. Votes: 0

Menander

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A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes. Votes: 0

Jay Samit

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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. Votes: 0

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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We must each of us bear our own misfortunes. Votes: 0

Charles Portis

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes. Votes: 0

Hesiod

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Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened. Votes: 0

Pierre Corneille

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them. Votes: 0

Washington Irving

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Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength. Votes: 0

Margaret of Valois

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It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes. Votes: 0

Rebecca West

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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. Votes: 0

Christopher Morley

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In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. Votes: 0

Pliny the Elder

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Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there. Votes: 0

Ihara Saikaku

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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. Votes: 0

Orville Dewey

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life. Votes: 0

Madeleine de Scudery

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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single. Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own. Votes: 0

Aesop

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Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. Votes: 0

Boyd K. Packer

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People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites. Votes: 0

Frank Sinatra

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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. Votes: 0

Madame de Stael

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. Votes: 0

Aesop

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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. Votes: 0

Tacitus

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A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness. Votes: 0

Aesop

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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes. Votes: 0

Oliver Goldsmith

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Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes. Votes: 0

Shinjo Ito

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We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs. Votes: 0

Timothy Winter

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Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am. Votes: 0

Anthony Liccione

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. Votes: 0

Pierre Bayle

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It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate. Votes: 0

Nancy Pickard

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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them. Votes: 0

Norm MacDonald

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Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you. Votes: 0

Pittacus of Mytilene

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Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. Votes: 0

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own. Votes: 0

Ovid

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See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Oliver Goldsmith

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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it. Votes: 0

Mignon G. Eberhart

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Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth. Votes: 0

George Washington

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Thomas More

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Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away. Votes: 0

Jean Racine

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I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Barry Humphries

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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes Votes: 0

Andre Gide

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Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come Votes: 0

Amy Lowell

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I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things. Votes: 0

StanisÅaw I LeszczyÅski

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We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. Votes: 0

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government. Votes: 0

Aung San Suu Kyi

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Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. Votes: 0

Aaron Hill

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Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us. Votes: 0

James Ellis

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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. Votes: 0

Bruce Lee

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Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater. Votes: 0

Boyle Roche

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By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] Votes: 0

Pierre Corneille

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Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Votes: 0

Publius Attius Varus

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Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Gaskell

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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs Votes: 0

Voltaire

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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. Votes: 0

Quentin Crisp

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Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell

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Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes! Votes: 0

Sophocles

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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. Votes: 0

Stendhal

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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together. Votes: 0

Walter Savage Landor

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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can. Votes: 0

Mary Wortley Montagu

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible. Votes: 0

Alexandre Dumas

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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes. Votes: 0

Bertolt Brecht

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The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity? Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others. Votes: 0

Alexander Smith

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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. Votes: 0

Washington Irving

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For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness. Votes: 0

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. Votes: 0

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them. Votes: 0

Thomas de Quincey

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If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless. Votes: 0

Richard Armour

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There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed. Votes: 0

Michael Crichton

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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. Votes: 0

Louis Kronenberger

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Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior. Votes: 0

Carol S. Dweck

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There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul. Votes: 0

Baltasar Gracian

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In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help. Votes: 0

Margaret Cavendish

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Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world. Votes: 0

Laozi

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. Votes: 0

Socrates

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Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention. Votes: 0

Marcus Eremita

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If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent. Votes: 0

Leonard Read

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A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money. Votes: 0

Livy

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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes. Votes: 0

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter. Votes: 0

Gideon Welles

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The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it. Votes: 0

Marjane Satrapi

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Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel with strong trust and he will help you. Votes: 0

John Bosco

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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others. Votes: 0

Barry Humphries

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The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you. Votes: 0

Saadi

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So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sisterâs Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. Whatâs wrong with me? Votes: 0

Laini Taylor

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We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter. Votes: 0

Polybius

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We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free. Votes: 0

Amy Ray

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Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. Votes: 0

Edgar Allan Poe

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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods. Votes: 0

Aristophanes

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France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. Votes: 0

Pierre Laval

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It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone by than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide. Votes: 0

Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that determine how those fortunes and misfortunes work to make us what we become. Votes: 0

Michael Josephson

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If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment. Votes: 0

Christine de Pizan

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We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.] Votes: 0

William Melmoth

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An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny. Votes: 0

Steven Pinker

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When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

Giacomo Casanova

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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

Clarence Darrow

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I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

Elizabeth I

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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

Pierre Charron

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Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!

John Vianney

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The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

Alexander McCall Smith

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Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

Daniel Handler

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There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

Oliver Goldsmith

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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

Walter Inglis Anderson

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When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

William Shenstone

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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

Denis Diderot

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My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.

James Cagney

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The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to me of an American cultural paradox we all grapple with. There's the rampant litigiousness of our society, and the desire to blame others for our misfortunes.

Heidi Julavits

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If you participate in life, you don't see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.

Gustave Flaubert

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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. Votes: 2 Aesop

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