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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


#gratefulness #misfortunes #reflection #men

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.


A. C. Benson


#life #losses #misfortunes #sorrows #worst

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.


Eliza Haywood


#contemplating #happy #his #hit #indulging

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#before #comes #evil #expecting #foolish

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.


Gideon Welles


#been #brighter #errors #heart #hopes

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


#misfortunes #love

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.


Walter Anderson


#although #am #attitude #darken #happening

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.


Ibrahim Babangida


#appreciate #cannot #caught #changing #correctly

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them.


Robert Fisk


#bush #come #economic #fortunes #friends

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.


Colleen McCullough


#book #fortunes #fun #great #life






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