Misfortune Quotes
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
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Opportunities are sometimes disguised as misfortune.
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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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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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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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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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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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The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
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I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.
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One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.
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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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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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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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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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In misfortune we usually regain the peace that we were robbed of through fear of that very misfortune.
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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
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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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This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.
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Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
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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.
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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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Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
