Misfortune Quotes
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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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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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Opportunities are sometimes disguised as misfortune.
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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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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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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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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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Misfortune was my god.
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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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This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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 greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
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Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
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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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There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
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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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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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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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In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
