It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater. — Boyle Roche Copy Share Image
So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is:… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Unimaginative people give up when bad things happen to them, while wise people keep going and overcome their misfortunes. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others,… — Rock Hudson Copy Share Image
When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
“But if there's one thing I've found in all my muddled wanderings, it's that we learn from our misfortunes just as much… — Deborah Hopkinson Copy Share Image
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. — Horace Copy Share Image
There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Misfortunes happen, but don't use it as an excuse to not try something new, or to wither in the face of a… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Take ones adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“In our lives, we don’t always get what we deserve or what we want. But how we deal with those misfortunes mold… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
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