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Letter "M" » Misfortune
«Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.»
«Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.»
Author: Walt Alston
| About:
Misfortune
«Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some»
«We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Happiness,
Misfortune
| Keywords:
as we say, exaggerate, misfortune
«Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to»
«Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Misfortune
| Keywords:
arouses, arousing, ceases, especially, excite, irritation, irritations, misfortune, pity, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs, recited, recites, reciting, the point, to the point
«Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition»
Author: French Proverb
| About:
Adversity,
Medicine,
Misfortune,
Morality
| Keywords:
act as, ameliorates, ameliorating, bitters, chasten, chastened, chastening, chastens, disagreeable, disposition, misfortunes, stomach
«To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Misfortune
| Keywords:
affords, alleviated, alleviates, relieving, wipe, wipe off
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