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#misfortune

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Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.


Titus Livius


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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.


Solon


#misfortune #equality

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.


Ambrose Bierce


#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.


Criss Jami


#beauty #confusion #depression #discern #discernment

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.


Voltaire


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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


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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.


Simone Weil


#day #else #false #got #illness

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.


Edward Gibbon


#follies #history #little #mankind #misfortunes

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.


Ulysses S. Grant


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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.


Lafcadio Hearn


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