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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.
Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal.
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune.
A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.
The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.
I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.
Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.
I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.
It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.
[Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.
I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house?
MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279
Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.
He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.
He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.
It saddens me to see the entrepreneurial world in Brazil, because it's a misfortune to be a boss in our country, with so many labor laws.
When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
