#misfortune

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

— Napoleon Hill

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Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived. ↗

— Mary Shelley

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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. ↗

— George Mason

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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. ↗

— Moliere

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ↗

— Washington Irving

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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ↗

— William James

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