Misfortunes Quotes
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O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.
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If people have nothing to brag about, they brag about their misfortunes.
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Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.
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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.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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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.
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
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Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
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How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
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You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing more miserable than to feel that by some mistake in life you have not amounted to what you might have, and that your misfortunes all hinge on that mistake.
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There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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.
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Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
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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.
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The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
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I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
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Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
