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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.
To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.
the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.
When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune,
Where there's no fear of greater ill to come.
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)
..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.
Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.
[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.
When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.
A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience.
