#misfortune

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes. ↗

— John Hawley

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

— Napoleon Hill

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I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away. ↗

— Amanda Burton

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In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#blame #condemn #disaster #fantasize #feel

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#hearer #journey #laugh #misfortunes #nothing

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bored #distress #misfortune #quickly #recital

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

#blunders #books #dancing #failures #fill