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title: "5 Adverse Fortune Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/happy-it-were-for-us-all-if-we-bore-prosperity-as-well-and-as-wisely/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

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> [There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-wentworth-higginson/there-is-certainly-no-defence-or-water-proof-garment-against-adverse/)

[Thomas Wentworth Higginson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-wentworth-higginson/)

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> [“The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/the-greatest-misery-in-adverse-fortune-is-once-to-have-been-happy/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

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> [Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/take-too-much-pleasure-in-good-things-you-ll-feel-the-shock-of/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-is-no-defense-against-adverse-fortune-which-is-so-effectual-as/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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