Misfortune Quotes
498 quotes by 359 authors
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
— Jane Austen
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
— Russell Baker
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
— Honore de Balzac
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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
— Joseph Addison
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred…
— Aeschylus
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
— Harry Browne
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
— Elias Canetti
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
— Chanakya
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
— Lydia M. Child
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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a…
— Christopher Reeve
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
— Walter Alston
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Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
— Og Mandino
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He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect. It is a misfortune not…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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