Misfortune Quotes
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother
William Somerset Maugham
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It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.
Ulysses S. Grant
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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.
Plato
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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
Paul Valery
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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.
Lydia M. Child
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
Dorothy Parker
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Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Victor Hugo
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
Charles Dickens
