Misfortunes Quotes - Page 3

• Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

  Paul Valery

  Block, Men, Want

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• We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Strong, Men, Bears

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• Misfortunes make us wise.

  Mary Norton

  Wise, Adversity

  Mary Norton (2001). “The Borrowers Afield”

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• A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

  Walter Bagehot

  Mother, Women, Inspiration

  Walter Bagehot (1910). “Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Worry, Anticipation

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• Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

  Voltaire

  History, Crime, Dump

  L'Ingenu ch. 10 (1767) See Gibbon 4

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• History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

  Voltaire

  History, Crime, Register

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• I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

  Edmund Burke

  Pain, Real, Degrees

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.106

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• There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

  Laozi

  Greed, Taoism, Greater

  "Lao Tze's Tao Teh King: The Bible of Taoism".

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• I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Dream, Country, Farewell

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• The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

  Christopher Morley

  Christian, Anxiety, Literature

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• The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fog, Weather, Connections

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Cry, Beast

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• contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

  Mignon G. Eberhart

  Doe, Add, Trouble

  Mignon G. Eberhart (2016). “Five Passengers From Lisbon”, p.59, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

  Albert Camus

  Soul, Suffering, Too Much

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• I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Spiritual, Truth

  Charles Dickens (2001). “David Copperfield”, p.254, Broadview Press

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• Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Parent, Faithful, Unhappy

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• My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Success, Congratulations, Dark

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

  Livy

  Gratitude, Blessed, Blessing

  Livy (1949). “Livy”

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• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.13, Penguin

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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. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

  Lydia M. Child

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Mind, East

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• Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pity, Comment

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

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• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Mother, Boys

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 27 (written in 1896)

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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

  Inspiring, Women, Knowledge

  'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

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