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Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Author:
Peter Zarlenga
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A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
Author:
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
Author:
Loretta Young
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
Author:
Isaac Wise
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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
Author:
Bert Williams
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Author:
Simone Weil
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Author:
Virgil
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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.
Author:
Paul Valery
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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Author:
Thucydides
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Author:
Tacitus
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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Author:
Charles Swindoll
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Author:
Sophocles
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Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Author:
Frank Sinatra
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It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Author:
Franz Schubert
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Misfortune was my god.
Author:
Arthur Rimbaud
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Author:
Arthur Rimbaud
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Author:
Plato
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Author:
Laurence Peter
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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.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Author:
Saskya Pandita
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Author:
Ovid
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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Author:
Austin O'Malley
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
Author:
William McFee
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
Author:
William McFee
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
Author:
W. Maugham
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
Author:
Ferdinand Lassalle
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I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
Author:
Alphonse Karr
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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Author:
William James
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Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Author:
William James
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Author:
Washington Irving
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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Author:
Napoleon Hill
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Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
Author:
Hesiod
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No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Author:
Alexander Herzen
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
Author:
Franz Grillparzer
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Author:
Ulysses Grant
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
Author:
R. Fuller
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In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Author:
Euripides
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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Author:
Epicurus
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
Author:
James Cooper
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We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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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.
Author:
Lydia Child
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Author:
Chanakya
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Author:
Elias Canetti
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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Author:
Harry Browne
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This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
Author:
Lionel Barrymore
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Author:
Russell Baker
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Author:
Walter Bagehot
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Author:
Aristotle
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
Author:
Walt Alston
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Author:
Aeschylus
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For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Author:
Aeschylus
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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Author:
Lord Acton
