Misfortune Quotes
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What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.
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Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.
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It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Opportunities are sometimes disguised as misfortune.
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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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In misfortune we usually regain the peace that we were robbed of through fear of that very misfortune.
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This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth gems of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
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It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.
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The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
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Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.
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Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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My uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
