Misfortune Quotes
These are some of the best 'Misfortune' quotations and sayings.
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A soul exasperated by its ills, falls out with everything, with its friend and itself.
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After all, our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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By struggling with misfortunes, we are sure to receive some wounds in the conflict; but a sure method to come off victorious is by running away.
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
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Evil events come from evil causes; and what we suffer, springs, generally from what we have done.
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Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
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It is seldom that God sends such calamities upon man as men bring upon themselves and suffer willingly.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck, are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
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Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
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Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
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Of fortune's sharp adversity, the worst kind of misfortune is this, that a man hath been in prosperity and it remembers when it passed is.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune to a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it is obliged to sustain.
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Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune.
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