Misfortunes Quotes - Page 36

• Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

  George Herbert

  Fortune

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.278

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• Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

  Clarence Darrow

  Hatred, Charity, Moral

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• To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.

  Thomas Malthus

  Law, People, Evil

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi

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• Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.

  Sylvia Porter

  Motivation, Support, Coins

  Sylvia Porter (1976). “Money”

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• Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Suffering, Facts

  Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

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• When I feel overwhelmed by misfortune, the greatest joy that the Lord can give me is to go to the altar, to put my forehead against it (as on the day of my ordination to the priesthood), and to feel the presence of the only reality. Not only does calm return, but my body seems to be annihilated; the only true life begins, the life of that which is intangible.

  Leonid Feodorov

  Reality, Giving, Joy

  Exarch Leonid Feodorov, Bridgebuilder Between Rome and Moscow" by Paul Mailleux, (p. 166), 1964.

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• The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Christian, Heaven, Arrogance

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• Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Luck, United States, Would Be

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “America Day by Day”

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• Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

  Margaret of Valois

  Temptation, Moral Strength, Tests

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• Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

  Henry Fielding

  Mind, Virtue, Contemplation

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.645

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• It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Speech, Speak, Judgment

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, Garden

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Opportunity, Too Much

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

  William Shenstone

  Trials, Matter, Way

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• We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Character, Judging

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• Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

  William Hazlitt

  Secrecy

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• A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Honor, Mind

  Henry Fielding (1903). “The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”

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• Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Stars, Men, Names

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4502, Delphi Classics

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• It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Comfort, Companionship, Miserable

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

  Stendhal

  Events, Notion, Happens

  Stendhal's journal entry, December 10, 1801.

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• There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fear, Fall, Thinking

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• It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ungrateful People, Scoundrels, Obligation

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• O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Humble, Hands, Punishment

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen (2017). “Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula”, p.622, Open Road Media

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• There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles--that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith--be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support.

  Robert Southey

  Christian, Support, Principles

  Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”

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• Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Effort, Lasts, Trouble

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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