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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. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. ↗

— Thomas Willis

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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. ↗

— Owen Glendower

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. ↗

— Herodotus

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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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