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“Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.”

Law Heaven Source Future Misfortunes

Author:Nguyen Du

“What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own? Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb, Appal the surest hour that life bestows. Serence, and master of yourself, prepare For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.”

Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

“The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.”

Ifs Christian Heaven Arrogance Misfortunes

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or sickness (from which none are exempt,) overtakes you, or for the distressed of your race, what a heaven of happiness you would have created on earth: ye would now be an ornament to your sex, and ages to come would call you blessed. But it is in vain to try - a priest-ridden female is lost to reason. Why? because she has surrendered her reason to the ... missionaries ... the orthodox; they are the grand deceivers.”

“Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.”

Heaven Moral Misfortunes

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington