Misfortunes Quotes
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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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If people have nothing to brag about, they brag about their misfortunes.
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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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How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
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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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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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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 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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But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.
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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.
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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.
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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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Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
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He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.
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Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
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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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Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
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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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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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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
