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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.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. X, Commodity Unit Stabilization, p. 109 -
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.
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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.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
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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.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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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.
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Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
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The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
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