#misfortunes

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. ↗

— Epictetus

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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

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Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ↗

— Amy Lowell

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Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. ↗

— Titus Livius

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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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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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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