Quotes with misfortune

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  • Charles Swindoll The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Blaise Pascal 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.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Austin O'Malley The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Achille Poincelot There are some people who think that all the world should share their misfortune, although they do not share in the sufferings of anybody else.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • Oscar Wilde To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Honoré de Balzac We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham When two laugh it is certain a misfortune has happened - to a third.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Ovid Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Elias Canetti 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?
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Simone Weil 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.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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