Character Quote by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

— Pierre Corneille

Misfortunes make us wise.

— Mary Norton

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

— Francois Guizot

The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in…

— Zicheng Hong

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

— Vittorio Alfieri

When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

— Edward Young

Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.

— Pierre Corneille

There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—

— Jorie Graham

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

— Francis of Assisi

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

— Stendhal

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's…

— Honore de Balzac

The feelings of bliss and contentment at doing good is the heaven in one's heart. And the guilt, shame and greed felt by an…

— Senoraroy