"Most misfortunes are the results of misused time." — Napoleon Hill

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• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;… — Aristotle
• Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
• Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
• Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a… — Marcus Aurelius
• A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen
• It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
• Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. — Francis Bacon
• Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the… — Russell Baker
• We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. — Honore de Balzac
• A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings… — Joseph Addison
• The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. — A. C. Benson
• Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce

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