Misfortunes Quotes
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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
Sophocles -
Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
George Washington
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
Seneca the Younger -
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.
William Faulkner -
Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.
Anthony Mary Claret -
Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
Seneca the Younger -
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.
Lao Tzu -
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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Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
George Washington -
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens -
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.
Michael Shannon -
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
Ned Vizzini -
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
Raymond Queneau
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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.
Emma Curtis Hopkins -
But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.
Charlotte Charke -
Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.
Nguyen Du -
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
Gail Anderson-Dargatz -
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.
Catullus
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
Seneca the Younger -
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.
Charles Fletcher Lummis -
He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.
Robert Phillips -
I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.
Tom Hollander