Misfortune Quotes
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Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
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A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
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Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.
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True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.
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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
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There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
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When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
