#misfortunes

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ↗

— Virgil

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

— Edward Gibbon

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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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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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

— Pierre Bayle

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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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