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“O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.”

Source: Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula

“Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.”

Men World Writing Firsts Pain Pleasure Known Opinion Laughing Sorrow Importance Every Man Vanity Related Injury Misfortunes Publish Supposing

Book:The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical

Source: The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical

“All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.”

Men Moments Joy Fate Bears Sorrow Familiar Misfortunes Definite

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.”

Joy Prayer Grief Tears Sorrow Encouragement Faults Excuse Misfortunes Sympathy Consolation

Author:Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix

“Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel with strong trust and he will help you.”

Helping Spiritual Turns Strong Sorrow Angel Be Good Misfortunes Guardian Guardian Angel

Author:John Bosco

“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”

Reality Fear Loss Worst Sorrow Misfortunes

Author:A. C. Benson

“With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.”

Humans Matter Reason Seems Human Beings Taken Sorrow No Matter What Contrary Destroyed Suits Misfortunes Teamwork Mediocre Concluding

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.”

Source: The courage to be happy

“There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.”

Kind Children Moments Helping Pain Parent Perfect Sorrow Fairs Ultimate Parenting Painful Innocence Your Children Misfortunes Betray Rooted Contemplating Obliged Destroyers

Author:Michael Chabon

“I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.”

Happens Motivational Suffering House Doors Keys Sorrow Bigger Misfortunes

Author:Charles Fletcher Lummis

“After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!”

Beautiful Joy Lying Behinds Darkness Tears Terrible Sorrow Rain Prosperity Ugly Dawn Glorious Mask Sunshine Misfortunes Soothing Countenance

Author:Obafemi Awolowo

“There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.”

Source: Hippocrates