“Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.”
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Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice
Source: The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
“Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.”
Source: Comedy of She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night. By Dr. Goldsmith. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatres-royal Covent-Garden and Drury-Lane ... with the Life of the Author, and a Critique, by R. Cumberland, Esq
“All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes
Source: America Day by Day
“The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.”
Source: The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.”
“Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.”
Source: 7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's
Source: Oz, the Complete Collection Volume 3 bind-up: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; Tik-Tok of Oz; The Scarecrow of Oz
“The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.”
Source: Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact
Source: Letters of George Sand
“I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.”
Source: Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: 2d Ser
“Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
Source: Pipers and a dancer
Source: The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
“Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq
“The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.”
Source: New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace
“Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.”
Source: Six Months in Italy
Source: Money
“It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.”
Source: Marriage Is Murder
“contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.”
Source: Five Passengers From Lisbon
Source: Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood
“Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.”
“Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.”